Re: Installing Debian with only 64mb RAM

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

On Saturday, 18 Apr 2015 at 15:43, peter.schleichmann@t-online.de wrote:
> Hi there,
> I've found an old laptop (MAXDATA Artist Stanford) with 64mb ram and
> tried to install a minimal Debian system. The installer warned me

I cannot help you directly but you may wish to consider one of the
Debian derivatives that targets small systems.  DSL (Damn Small Linux)
is probably one of the better known ones:

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

and claims to be small enough to run on a i486 with 16 MB of RAM...

I've never tried it, mind you.  My smallest system has 256 MB of RAM so
very large in comparison! :)

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