Re: Installing Debian On a laptop with a Zip Plus drive

1999-04-21 Thread Bruce Sass
With only 4M RAM you will have problems with the system being very slow (lots of swapping going on). Installing ash and linking it to /bin/sh helps a lot, as does replacing getty with mingetty. You may also want to look at replacing bash with something smaller. X recommends 8M+, it may run in 4,

Installing Debian On a laptop with a Zip Plus drive

1999-04-21 Thread Madel, Kurt
I was wondering if anyone has tried this. I have a 486/33 laptop with 4 megs of RAM and would like to put Debian on it. I don't have anyway of connecting the laptop to a cd-rom, but I do have a Zip Plus drive (so I need the imm patch that is included as part of the 2.2.x kernel). The laptop has a