Re: debian on a 486 with 2 mb?
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 03:01:58PM +0000, Tom Breza wrote:
> > And suddenly derZiegelmann had this magical idea:
> > > i got a ibm ps/2 n51sx recently (by accident ;-)) with win 3.1 installed on
> > > it. now i'm wondering if it is possible to install debian on it. if it is
> > > possbile then i have another problem, because the laptop only has a floppy
> > > drive. is there a version which could be installed from floppy? or can i
> > > split the whole bundle manually?
> > >
> u can copy base system on floppy and install from it, i didit, becuse my
> pcmcia did not work streight away, when I finish instalation of base
> system I add pcmcia network card and rest of installation I put over the
> network :P
I did a floppy + network install on an 8MB Compaq Concerto
recently and it was tremendously slow. I can't imagine
trying to install a full system from just floppy. I got a prior
version running on an Omnibook 300 with 4MB a few years back
and that was painful too.
Hope your project is worth the trouble.
I doubt if potato or woody are even possible in 2MB- the
initrd ramdisk would eat up all your memory right away.
The only way I can see to install debian would be to get
swapspace set up from the get-go. You might find the
4mb-Laptop HOWTO useful.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/4mb-Laptops-4.html
Another route might be to adapt one of the projects aimed at
handheld linuxes. The intimate project for the Compaq IPAQ
plans to put a full debian system on a limited handheld
device.
http://intimate.handhelds.org
Linuxes or even smaller machines include ucLinux and ELKS.
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