Re: memory issues with debianham
* Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <ke6sls@cox.net> [2002 Jun 17 21:38 -0500]:
> Greetings:
>
> I pulled down the image and dd'd it to a floppy. It begins to boot fine
> after the lilo prompt, but after it gets to the ramdisk it runs out of
> memory. Is there a way to not use the ramdisk?
Not at this time as this is a boot and run type of deal. As the project
goes along it should become more flexible. Back in the discussion phase
I suggested that the live filesystem could be dd'ed over to a hard disk
partition and run from there. However it will be some time before it is
ready for that.
> I would *really* like to use a linux logger for Fieldday this weekend.
>
> The laptop is old 486/25 with 4mb ram and 300mb hd.
I think even 4 MiB is a bit too low for the DebianHam mini distro. You
might check out the home page at:
http://debianham.sunsite.dk/
and subcribe to the developers mailing list. I'm sure Joop would be
interested in helping you out as I know he has discussed using an older
kernel and smaller libs for older machines.
At this late point I think you may want to evaluate TLF. Even on a
486-100 it seemed rather slow, however I learned later that was due to
the callsign lookup/completion feature which I think can be disabled
through the config file or commandline switches.
I would like to try it as well, but everyone else (and me) is used to
CT. :-(
73, de Nate >>
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