| Morgan Wajda-Levie on Sat, 28 Aug 1999 21:34:26 -0400 (EDT) |
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On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 04:12:26PM -0500, 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. > It seems that my problem did not lie in the RAM. My CD-ROM drive wasn't plugged in all the way, so Linux crashed looking for it. :) The installation is still a pain int he ass, though. -- Morgan Wajda-Levie http://www.worldaxes.com/wajdalev PGP fingerprint: A353 C750 660E D8B6 5616 F4D8 7771 DD21 7BF6 221C http://www.worldaxes.com/wajdalev/public.asc for PGP key encrypted mail preferred Attachment:
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