Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 12:21:29PM +0100, Doofus wrote:
After trying to install small command-line system over the net onto an old tosh
laptop with 16MB of RAM and a 2GB drive, the installer tells me a minimum of
22MB is required. I'm guessing this is for the new installer itself to function
properly. Is there any alternative method to get a minimal system installed?
Apologies for this simple question but again I've been unable to find the
answer at debian.org - unless of course the absence of any details about low
RAM systems means I'm out of luck.
1) Install woody and upgrade
OR
2) Boot DSL (Damn Small Linux) and do a chroot install
OR
3) Install DSL (IIRC, it is Debian based)
-Roberto
Thanks Roberto.
1. nah - I had such pain with big upgrades in the first place that I
started from scratch when I moved from woody to sarge
2 & 3. chrooting looks interesting (not to say something new to learn).
Thanks for bringing my attention to DSL. Yes it is debian based except
for X which I'm not interested in anyway. While looking it up I also
came across this page which may interest others:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/installers.html
I'm still unimpressed though that debian seem to have abandoned those
with bottom end hardware by implementing a no-other-choice (if very
clever) installer that requires a large amount of memory to run. The
reason I chose debian over any other distro years ago was because I
could install it on basic laptops with half a dozen floppies. But I
digress...
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