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Re: [Plug] Low Memory Linux Distributions
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check out slackware. There's a lowmem.txt that explains all the little
tricks you'll need to know to get it up and running. I've installed
slackware under similar hardware conditions several times succesfully.
Joe
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Morgan Wajda-Levie wrote:
> I just got a 486 from my uncle, which is great. The bad part is that
> it only has 4 meg of RAM. I've been trying to install Debian on it,
> using the lowmem boot disk, but I've only gotten it to boot once.
> This allowed me to create a swap space and a temporary root
> partition. I have not yet been able to complete the installation.
>
> I'm using Debian 2.0, with a 2.1 boot disk. Are there any
> distributions that work better on a low memory system?
>
> Is it worth the trouble? In a few weeks I'll be buying a P3
> motherboard and 64M of ram. This means that a lot of hardware is
> going to be moving down the chain.
>
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