Re: Installing Debian On a laptop with a Zip Plus drive
With only 4M RAM you will have problems with the system being very slow
(lots of swapping going on).
Installing ash and linking it to /bin/sh helps a lot, as does replacing
getty with mingetty. You may also want to look at replacing bash with
something smaller.
X recommends 8M+, it may run in 4, but would be too slow to be useable.
- Bruce
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On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Madel, Kurt wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has tried this. I have a 486/33 laptop with 4 megs
> of RAM and would like to put Debian on it. I don't have anyway of
> connecting the laptop to a cd-rom, but I do have a Zip Plus drive (so I need
> the imm patch that is included as part of the 2.2.x kernel). The laptop has
> a 200mb hard drive.
>
> What packages should I install and is X windows out of the question?
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