on Sun, Jun 23, 2002, Rick Dawson (rkdawson@mstar2.net) wrote: > Hello everyone: > This is my first posting to this newsgroup. > I have the following system: > 386SX-25 > math copro > 4mb ram > 1.44 fdd > 120 mb hdd > 4x atapi ide cdrom > > know ram is cheap but I want to do this because I understand it can be Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly recommend 72 as a good default. Thank you. > done and I want to take on the challenge. (Kind of like the famous > question: why do men climb mountains? Because they're there.) I > realize that there are mini-distros that would install easily on dos > via umsdos but that's not what I'm trying to accomplish. I would like > to install a full distro on a ext2 file system without any dos > partitions left over. When I'm done I just want to have two > partitions - one native linux partition and one linux swap partition. Can be done. I'd recommend against it. The overhead of a Debian distribution, including such things as the package list and cache, and the memory required to handle it, are more than 4 MiB RAM + 120 MiB disk can handle. My current low-end system is a 486 33 MHz, 16 MiB, 500 MiB system. I don't have enough memory to get through an apt-get update, let alone an upgrade. I'd suggest using Debian to bootstrap this process instead. The bootcd package may offer what you're looking for, though I haven't played with it, yard is another possibility. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? VAR with attitude -- Automation Access: http://www.aaxnet.com/
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