Hi, On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:18:16PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:10:38 +0100, Dom wrote in message > <4f8d79de.20...@rpdom.net>: > > > On 16/04/12 21:34, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: > > > To anybody interested, debian wheezy can't run on 64MB RAM on i386. > > > Or actually it can run but package management is unusable so all > > > debian benefits are actually lost.
Hmmm.... I have not tried recently but Debian i386 was for 486 or newer for good long time. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en#id583669 | However, Debian GNU/Linux squeeze will not run on 386 or earlier | processors. Despite the architecture name "i386", support for actual | 80386 processors (and their clones) was dropped with the Sarge (r3.1) | release of Debian[2]. (No version of Linux has ever supported the 286 or | earlier chips in the series.) All i486 and later processors are still | supported[3]. ... | [2] We have long tried to avoid this, but in the end it was necessary | due a unfortunate series of issues with the compiler and the kernel, | starting with an bug in the C++ ABI provided by GCC. You should still be | able to run Debian GNU/Linux on actual 80386 processors if you compile | your own kernel and compile all packages from source, but that is beyond | the scope of this manual. | [3] Many Debian packages will actually run slightly faster on modern | computers as a positive side effect of dropping support for these old | chips. The i486, introduced in 1989, has three opcodes (bswap, cmpxchg, | and xadd) which the i386, introduced in 1986, did not have. Previously, | these could not be easily used by most Debian packages; now they can. This is not RAM size issue but CPU code compatibility issue. > > > I tried pulling the .deb files on another machine, then transfer to > > > the old machine. But dpkg is killed on 95% reading database (I think > > > OOM killer). It fails even if I try to install 1 package. So install Woddy (r3.0) from old archive ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120419132455.GA8136@localhost