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Re: low mem boot disks



On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Wakko Warner wrote:

> slink was the last debian dist with lowmem boot disks, where have they gone?

AFAIK, there was nobody around to work on them for potato.

> Don't tell me that the programs have gotten so big they won't work on a
> 2-4mb machine.

It is a manpower, not a technical issue.
Although I could not get slink to install into less than 4M, the kernel
refused to run (IIRC), and was told that the 4M bar could get bumped up 
for newer kernels.


- Bruce


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