On Thu, 07 Jun 2001 20:04:55 Geordie Birch wrote:
> i have a 486 laptop with 4MB RAM and 125MB HDD. average free disk space
> is around 10MB!
>
> it swaps a lot but otherwise works fine.
What do you use it for?
I have a similar machine (486sx25/4MB/250MB) that I'm thinking of using as
a NAT/DH
I have a friend who's interested in getting my help to install Linux
for the first time... but his spare machine only has 4MB of RAM. The
last time I tried to install Linux on a machine with that little RAM
was in 1996 or 1997 when I was using RedHat 4.2. RedHat's installer
wouldn't even run prop
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:16:45PM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote:
| I have a friend who's interested in getting my help to install Linux
| for the first time... but his spare machine only has 4MB of RAM. The
| last time I tried to install Linux on a machine with that little RAM
| was in 1996 or 1
said Kenneth Pronovici (on 2001-06-07),
> I have a friend who's interested in getting my help to install Linux
> for the first time... but his spare machine only has 4MB of RAM. The
> last time I tried to install Linux on a machine with that little RAM
> was in 1996 or 1997 when I was using RedHa
said Geordie Birch (on 2001-06-07),
> said Kenneth Pronovici (on 2001-06-07),
>
> > I have a friend who's interested in getting my help to install Linux
> > for the first time... but his spare machine only has 4MB of RAM. The
> > last time I tried to install Linux on a machine with that little RA
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:16:45PM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote:
> I have a friend who's interested in getting my help to install Linux
> for the first time... but his spare machine only has 4MB of RAM. The
> last time I tried to install Linux on a machine with that little RAM
> was in 1996 or 1
Are we talking bo here? The following applies to bo and may well work
with hamm but I have not yet tried it.
The trick with a low-mem install is this; when you get to the "boot: "
prompt answer with "linux floppy0". After that just follow instructions
but note that along the way you will need
I need help trying to install Debian on a system with low memory. I
have made the Rescue disk and the Low memory root disk. Setup goes fine
until after "Copying root filesystem from floppy to /dev/hda10 ...".
This copies from drive A: and completes with "done." Should it be
copying from drive B:
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, mray01 wrote:
>
> I am attempting to install debian on a 386/16 with 4mb RAM. How do I go
> about booting the lmemroot.bin disk? Do I need to pass a special argument
> using resc1440.bin?
Boot the resq disk. When you get to the "boot:" prompt tell it "floppy0"
and then f
I am attempting to install debian on a 386/16 with 4mb RAM. How do I go
about booting the lmemroot.bin disk? Do I need to pass a special argument
using resc1440.bin?
-Mike
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