Re: Low Memory Support...
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 09:08:00PM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've had some experience with low-mem systems.
> Is there anything in particular that was giving you problems?
Yes,
With the lowmem boot-floppy (from 2.1 or 2.0) it is said that you should
creat a temporary root partition (minix fs) to replace a ramdisk.
So do i, and i created a linux partition and a swap. And then during the
install i couldn't initialize the swap (in fact it where already initialized
and used during the first boot with lowmem boot floppy)
So someone told that there was a bug, and another guy told me to create TWO
swap partitions (a little temporary swap used with the temporary minix root
partition and a bigger to be used normally)
And so i think i really succeded in installing all the stuff but i was never
able to boot the system for the final config (you know: root password and
such) bash complains : "not enough memory" and there was somme
"cannot fork" and so on....
I tried to compile another smaller kernel but it is not something easy
to do for i only have a potato desktop PC with a 2.2 kernel and i wanted
to compile a 2.0 kernel for the slink laptop and i messed a few things
on my desktop PC. So i gave up.
A+
> On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Fabrice Gautier wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there at the moment any support for low memory hardaware in the potato
> > boot-floppies? If not, will there ba any? Or is it just too exotic that
> > lowmem support will be dropped?
> >
> > I currently have a 486 laptop with 4Mo RAM, 80Mo HD, floppy, no CD,
> > no PCMCIA. I tried to install a slink (and various others dsitros)
> > but it seems the lowmem support were buggy (at least it doesn't work
> > on my poor hardware)
> >
> > I'm ready to test lowmem support as soon as there will be any (but i have'nt
> > the time or the skill to work on)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > A+
> >
>
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Fabrice Gautier
gautier@email.enst.fr
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