Re: Low Memory Support...
One more thing...
You can get a couple extra megs out of your HD if you are thoughtfull
about how you manage the partitions...
initial partition scheme:
partition use size
--------- --- ----
hda1 swap s1
hda2 minix s2
hda3 linux s3
after the install, repartition the drive like this:
hda1 swap s1+s2
hda3 linux s3
then reinitialize the new, larger, swap partition.
Hope that helps.
- Bruce
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On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Fabrice Gautier wrote:
> 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+
> > >
> >
>
> --
> Fabrice Gautier
> gautier@email.enst.fr
>
later,
Bruce
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