Re: installation requirements
Daniel Reuter wrote:
>
> Hello Othmar,
>
> On Fri, 26 May 2000, Othmar Pasteka wrote:
>
> > what should i advice people to do if they have 5 mb of ram? or
> > less than 8 mb (or 12 as suggested in the installation manual).
>
> Depends on what they want to do with their systems. I have slink installed
> on a i486 Laptop with 8MB RAM, and I am quite satisfied with it. I can
> use X-Windows, but I had to cut it down to the core (No Desktop
> environment, blackbox as resource friendly window-manager) and I am only
> starting it, when I really need it.
> Don't know if potato will work on this machine, but I'll try as soon as it
> goes stable (already have frozen installed on my desktop).
>
I installed potato a few revisions ago to a 486-100 with 8MB ram, it
installed fine, the biggest problem was trying to run dselect, it was
very dependent on swap. You can avoid dselect though, and use tasksel.
Glenn
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