Re: Debian on 386SX/3MB

[armitage@freaks.com (Brandon High)]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:57:45PM -0500, Indraneel Majumdar wrote:
> 
> Can anyone please tell me whether it is possible to install Debian on a
> 386SX with 3MB RAM. I tried to install using the potato floppies but it
> starts to load the compressed ramdisk from the root floppy and then
> simply hangs. No furthur output. The floppies are OK and work fine on
> other systems with more RAM.

I remember way back running Linux 1.0.x and 1.2.x on a 4 MB machine. I
believe that you could compile a custom kernel that will fit, but you will
be paging almost constantly.

-B

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Brandon High                                     armitage@freaks.com
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