Re: Laptop 386dx40 with 4 MByte and 40 MByte
On Wed 20 Nov, David B Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:09:59 +0200
> Michelle Konzack <linux.mailinglists@freenet.de> wrote:
> > Hello laptop.deb's,
> >
> > I have gotten a NEW OLD LAptop and I like to install Debian.
> > MS-Dos 6.2 was no problem, but... it's a Microsoft product.
> >
> > Which Version of Debian is recommended ?
> >
> > bo, hamm, slink, potatop or woody ?
> >
> > Oh yes, I have no CD and no lpd-port. Only one Floppy and mono-display.
> >
> > Generaly I like to run Lyx, a webbrowser and a MUA like balsa.
>
> With only four megs of memory, you'll not be able to run any of those
> versions listed.
There is a whole 4mb-laptop HOWTO, which shows that it is possible to run
Linux on such machines, but it's true - in practice doing much useful in a
4MB machine requires an 'embedded device' mentality, and Debian is not
really set up for that as supplied. And most embedded devices these days
have a lot more than 4MB RAM :-)
Woody has been installed on an 16MB Psion5mx with 64MB CF card, but you
wouldn't want anything much smaller.
Wookey
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