Re: Low Memory Install?
said Geordie Birch (on 2001-06-07),
> said Kenneth Pronovici (on 2001-06-07),
>
> > I have a friend who's interested in getting my help to install Linux
> > for the first time... but his spare machine only has 4MB of RAM. The
> > last time I tried to install Linux on a machine with that little RAM
> > was in 1996 or 1997 when I was using RedHat 4.2. RedHat's installer
> > wouldn't even run properly on a machine with that little RAM, and I
> > ended up falling back on an older "low memory" version of Slackware.
> >
> > My question is: can I successfully complete a minimal Debian install
> > with only 4MB of RAM, or is this a losing proposition that's just going
> > to frustrate me?
>
> you can easily do it with debian 2.1. you could then do an apt-get
> dist-upgrade to run debian 2.2.
>
> i have a 486 laptop with 4MB RAM and 125MB HDD. average free disk space
> is around 10MB!
>
> it swaps a lot but otherwise works fine.
i should add that i have not dist-upgraded that box to 2.2.
ge.
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