Re: debian 2.2 with 8 meg ?
Quoth thomas.krepkowski@gmx.de,
> I have an old, lonely 486 with 8 MB and want to use it for Linux.
> Is there any chance to use debian 2.2 on it.
> I read in the installation manual, that it needs 12 MB.
I've installed, and happily run, potato on a 486 with 8M of RAM (an old
notebook, for which a ram upgrade is difficult). It works, but I hope
you're a very patient man to survive the install.
dselect and dpkg are woefull on low mem systems. Expect to wait an hour
or more for the selection of files to come up in dselect. Expect dpkg to
crash a few times whilst installing stuff.
dpkg does seem to have a lowmem option (or something like that), which
helps. It may be possible to force dselect to use it, but I don't know
how (try man dselect?).
In short, it worked for me. It runs fine when it finally gets going (I
only use mine in text-mode), but I'd highly recomend compiling a much
leaner kernel than the debian default.
cheers,
damon
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