On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Alex McLintock wrote: > I've looked at the docs and they seem to suggest that running with 8Mb > is possible but not recommended. At the moment I only have 8Mb to put > in the machine so I'd like to try Leaf / Oxygen if I can. (I tried > Eigerstein a long time ago before I had the internet connection to > actually use it with...) > > What will go wrong first with that much memory?
Backups can be corrupted (they usually go to /tmp first, then to disk). May run out of core memory attempting to invoke diagnostic programs... I had problems even with simple things like "more" when I used 8M. The key to making it work is to adjust the size of the ramdisk to somewhere between 3 and 5 MB, and don't make any mistakes. This is almost impossible if you don't have experience with LEAF in a configuration that works, so you know how things SHOULD behave. Also, I think both DS and Oxygen come by default with configurations that assume 16 or 24MB memory, so you may have to make a custom boot floppy just to get them going. > I've tried EigerStein Beta2 on floppy and it boots (but I don't think > it has recognised my 2 D-Link NICs yet). I can log in as root but the > machine is giving me the message > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd > > over and over again. My intuition tells me this is fairly terminal and > caused by only having 8Mb. Sort of. Look at the "ramdisk_size=" option in syslinux.cfg... this has to be small enough to give the kernel and minimum software enough ram to run in. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user