On Aug 12 2001, ktb wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 02:02:09PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi, I'm looking into buying a 386 laptop with 4 mb RAM, and a
> > 160mb HDD. Will I be able to install Debian on this? How about X
> > windows?
>
> http://7thguard.net/files/DebianHOWTO.txt
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/4mb-Laptops.html
One of the biggest problems that I have noticed (I haven't
read the above documents, so I may be restating what they're
saying) is that glibc is quite large for a computer with only
4MB of RAM.
There are some projects out there on the net that intend to
make a smaller version of the Unix's standard libc library,
namely dietlibc and uClibc. I haven't used any of these, but
if I had to cope with such restrictions, I'd definitely use an
old kernel (since they are lighter) stripped of any unused
module, a busybox to use as commands and one of these
"lighter" libraries, disabling unnecessary services also.
Using X is not very good in such cases.
[]s, Roger...
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