Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have an old, lonely 486 with 8 MB and want to use it for Linux. > Is there any chance to use debian 2.2 on it. > I read in the installation manual, that it needs 12 MB. As someone else already pointed out, that you can install potato on a machine with 8MB RAM, but it's really painful. An alternative would be to do the actual install on a faster machine to get a base system up and running and then stuffing the hard drive into your 486. Running apt-get to add or delete stuff is fairly easy, although it will take some minutes, too. I installed my firewall like that and it works like a charm (zero loadavg). HTH, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ Geek Code (3.1): GCS/SS d-@ s+: a20 C++@ UL++$ P+ L+++ E--- W++ N++ o? K? !W O? M? V? PS++@ PE+(-) Y+ P?(+++) t+ 5+ X- R? !tv b+ DI+ D- G e>+++ h-- r- !y+
