Re: Low Memory Install?
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001 20:04:55 Geordie Birch wrote:
> 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.
What do you use it for?
I have a similar machine (486sx25/4MB/250MB) that I'm thinking of using as
a NAT/DHCP/DNS machine for LAN parties (as it's easy to carry). I've
already put a minimal 70MB slink install on it, but I haven't really tried
using it yet.
dselect is a pain as it swaps like mad whenever the
recommends/suggests/depends screen comes up.
One thing to mention about the low memory slink install is that it doesn't
always activate the swap partition correctly, so if you're seeing errors
or a lack of disk activity during the install, switch to v22 and do a
"swapon /dev/hda2" (or whatever you've set up your swap partition to be).
Martin.
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