On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Gray, David W. wrote:
> I've come to the conclusion that the -current stuff really doesn't install
> on an 8 Meg machine anymore. I have an old 486/66 machine I'm using
> to play with the current-RC's, and it consistantly dies loading the 'bin'
> stuff.
>
I installed CURRENT of approx. January 1 with no problems on a 486/66
with only 8MB. Has something changed very recently that makes it
impossible now?
I installed through NFS.
In fact the disk I installed this on is now in a laptop with only a
little over 4MB (4352K), running a webserver :-)
(http://keltisch.verboden.nl, in Dutch, but there is a link at the
bottom "This server")
You cannot install on 4 MB, nor run GENERIC kernel on 4 MB. After
taking unnessary (and not strictly necessary like nfs, which is
250K) stuff out of the kernel it did run here (and is running for 28
days).
O, yes, I had to make it not do the daily checks. These frooze the 4
MB box.
> This isn't really a complaint -- after the load & boot cycle, there is only
> 2.4M free according to the boot messages, so I can see why this would
> fill up. (I wound up loading the drive on another box that usually drives my
> printer, 386/25 and 24M, talk about S.L.O.W). And it can't quite compile a
> kernel in one go, either.
>
I am not absolutely sure I succeeded compiling a kernel on 8 MB. I
know I did try. But because I needed a lot of tries to cut down kernel
size (and the BIOS of the laptop did not like new ata), I switched to
a faster machine for kernel compiling.
> Perhaps the release notes, or hardware file need to note you really do need
> more than 8M ?
>
>
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