Re: older debian release?
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, peter wrote: hi, i've got what may seem a strange request.. i'm looking for an older release of debian. i have a laptop w/ only 2MB RAM and i've been told that one of the older releases of debian will run under 2MB. Try using an older kernel; The 1.2.13 is smaller than 2.0.X, and has support for ELF binaries. With it, I guess debian 1.3.1 should be OK. And you might want to use 1.0.9, smaller still, but I don't know about ELF, maybe you'd have to use debian 0.93R6 which was a.out. Also, you may want to check out http://rsphy1.anu.edu.au/~gpg109/mem.html . I don't know if this address is still valid! yes, it's still valid, and not only that, i have everything up and running now! the only part that i don't like about it is that i have to download a lot of the standard tools and install them manually. it's really easy, of course, it's just taking a lot of download time! :) thanks to everyone who helped, my laptop is now useful again! best, peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: older debian release?
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, peter wrote: hi, i've got what may seem a strange request.. i'm looking for an older release of debian. i have a laptop w/ only 2MB RAM and i've been told that one of the older releases of debian will run under 2MB. well, I tried 1.3.1 with 2MB, but that's really really not done... I even compiled a kernel with no support for anything, but is still didn't quite boot... It was a 386/25 (I even don't know if it's a SX or DX). I had to outcomment some lines in the source code of the kernel to make it even boot the kernel... Eventually I had a kernel of about 500KB, I had modified the boot script to enable swap before anything else, but after some 45 minutes the syslogd was only just started... and just to stave off the usual responses i get, i know that i won't be able to do much with only 2MB, but i'm only interested in a base install anyway, i use my main machine for all the big stuff. if you install 1.3.1 (at least if you succeed...) and try booting with init=/bin/bash you might say you're running linux, but you can't run much more than just a shell... I'm sorry to disappoint you, but it seems this is the truth... Regards, Maarten. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: older debian release?
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, peter wrote: hi, i've got what may seem a strange request.. i'm looking for an older release of debian. i have a laptop w/ only 2MB RAM and i've been told that one of the older releases of debian will run under 2MB. Try using an older kernel; The 1.2.13 is smaller than 2.0.X, and has support for ELF binaries. With it, I guess debian 1.3.1 should be OK. And you might want to use 1.0.9, smaller still, but I don't know about ELF, maybe you'd have to use debian 0.93R6 which was a.out. Also, you may want to check out http://rsphy1.anu.edu.au/~gpg109/mem.html . I don't know if this address is still valid! See ya, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's Internet! It's all true, and you don't know nothing yet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: older debian release?
Hi, hi, i've got what may seem a strange request.. i'm looking for an older release of debian. i have a laptop w/ only 2MB RAM and i've been told that one of the older releases of debian will run under 2MB. Bo can run in 2 MB RAM. You'll have to use the lmemboot floppy and to compile a kernel with make zImage (bzImage ones need 4 MB). Count about 20 hours to complete the installation of the base system. After the install, use ash instead of bash it's much much less greedy in RAM. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
