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]
older debian release?
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. none of the older releases are on the main ftp sites (so far as i can tell) and doing a web search only returns what are basically press releases that point to directories on the ftp sites that don't exist any more. 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. thanks, 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]
