Re: Out of memory problem

[grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com (Grant Grundler)]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:08:22AM +0100, Markus Schaber wrote:
> I've got an old HP Apollo 710 with 16 MB.
...
> Is there any chance to get a less-memory consuming image? I want to
> avoid to build a cross-compile environment on my PC if it's avoidable.

I'd discourage trying to run debian on any box with only 16MB RAM.
You certainly don't want to run dselect - box starts swapping horribly.
I learned this the hard way trying to run dselect on 233Mhz x86 laptop
with only 16MB RAM.

> Might a NFS-Boot help, and where do I get an Image prepared for this?

See www.parisc-linux.org.

grant