Howard Helbein on Mon, 30 Aug 1999 09:48:00 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] Low Memory Linux Distributions


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.

There are some small memory distributions out there.  You should
be able to find links from www.linuxberg.com.  I've been experimenting
with the Linux Router project to use as a gateway.  You can check it
out at www.linuxrouter.org.

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 Howard Helbein / hch@op.net


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