Re: 386-4 Meg install question

[Sebastiaan <sebas@sacred-key.org>]

Hi,

as far as I know, Debian should work with 4MB, but you need at least 12MB
for installation (maybe you can borrow it somewhere?). You can save loads
of memory with shutting down/removing everything that you do not need and
compile the kernel as small as possible. Today I discovered that you can
disable the virtual consoles, so you save some mem. Maintenance must be
done from another host. Also building in a big swap would help.

On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, DSC Lithuania wrote:
>  
> We are trying to set up an old 4-MB, 386 system (described below) with Linux, to use it as a mini-email
> server for a Windows 95/98 ethernet network.  We are in Lithuania, which means that there is a lot 
does that mean that you are in the middle of nowhere?

> of hardware that is unavailable, including (at the moment) old SIMMS, so we can't upgrade the memory.

Greetz,
Sebastiaan