On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 11:01:40AM -0500, DSC Lithuania wrote: > >From your Debian 2.2 documentation, it looks like 2.2 requires a minimum of > >12 MB of Ram.
Right. But there's a work-around. Install some earlier release (e.g. slink (2.1 as far as I remember) and upgrade using: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade That's the way, I installed potato on a 8MB i486. It should also work on a 4MB i386 (But take care, that you don't put too much load on the machine: shut down virtual consoles (3 should be enough for your purposes, so comment out the 3 other initially activated ones in inittab) run only essential stuff (so don't run gpm, atd, lpd and the like, if you don't really need it)) Don't know, if apt-getting is possible with your 1.3.1 (it should be possible to upgrade the system to some later release, but it might be a bit more difficult). > So that wouldn't be good for us. Likewise, I tried looking at the "small" > 2-MB version of Debian > that is supposed to be available, but the server seems down, so that isn't > available at the moment. Havn't heard of it up to now, might be an alternative. > From the Floppy Install, we put the rescue disk in and booted up. The system > came up to the initial > options page (where you can put command line options, or look at the F1-F5 > help pages). After > hitting Enter, it said "Loading Root.Bin ... Loading Linux .... uncompressing > Linux ... booting kernal ... Ramdisk: Compressed image found at Block 0". > And that is where it would stop forever after. Note that it would never give > me a chance to put the LMEMROOT disk in, or acknowledge that it was low on > memory. Don't know how it worked with 1.3.1, but can you boot from the LMEMROOT disk? As far as I remember, in slink, you had to boot from the lomem-disk, to get the initial system up and running. Regards, Daniel
