mcm wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
m> I agree that swap is practically a requirement. In my case,
m> I am building an embedded system that uses a flash drive to
m> store the system. I want to avoid swap space because I'm
m> concerned about aggressive swapping onto a device that has
m
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Lloyd Sumpter wrote:
>Sure. In fact, I was suprised that Redhat REQUIRED me to set up a swap
> partition. I usually install without swap, then use a swapfile, so I can change
> the size without messing with partitions. Slackware and, I believe, Caldera, do
> not require sw
al Message-
From: John C Cusick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Thursday, December 03, 1998 01:04
Subject: Dreaming the Impossible Dream ??
>Gentlemen and La
Huh,
tried once to install Debian on a 386/16 w 4Mram, 540 disk, but it WAS A
WASTE OF TIME. It worked SO slowly and crashes were not unusual.
cheers
Kledi
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How about 4meg ram and 40 meg hard drive. Done that and got all the
networking stuff going. Don't know if you can install with as little as 2
meg ram.
John C Cusick wrote:
> Gentlemen and Ladies,
>
> Has anyone tried or know of anyone
> who has tried to squeeze a basic linux system onto
