Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do we still want to support very old hardware, especially low memory system > (eg. some old sparc, and maybe old 386, 486 as well) ?
Then you also need a 1.x kernel. 2.0 is wasting mem and 2.2 doesn´t boot on low mem maschines. I think its safe to assume 8 MB ram for a linux installation. Everybody else should take a bootdisk from bo or slink. > In this case, we need to add a "swap on NFS" patch to the kernel. > I found one patch for 2.0.35 (sparc) kernel. And for 2.2, NBD could be used > along with a patch to the networking subsystem > (http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/nbd/nbd.html). > I will try to build bootdisks for sparc based on them. Hmm, if you can nfs-swap, you will have acess to another maschine, where you custombuild your kernel and copy that to the boot disk. If ram is a problem you will want to compile a kernel anyway. May the Source be with you. Goswin
