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.
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