Martin Miehe wrote: > The actual Debian needs at least 48 MB RAM on the x86 architecture.
I have just checked the Debian Testing network install CD from July (the same CD from which Debian was installed on my new computer). It does work in the qemu virtual machine given only 32 MB of RAM. According to the Debian mailing lists, a memory leak has been fixed a month ago, so it does make sense to retry. > (3) LiveCD seems to be the best way to do LFS. It is not the only way, > but has a lot of advantages. Have you ever tried to download all the > packages and patches with a 56k modem? Yes. I got ADSL only in March 2006. Before that, I used dialup and GPRS. > Do you know how old most binary > distros have to be to work with acceptable speed on an old computer? Again, you just didn't see Debian. > Do you know anybody who is interested in first upgrading a kernel 2.4 > system to 2.6 just to get rid of the upgraded system? > Nobody - but there are some binary distros (Debian, Slackware) that have the 2.6 kernel available and do work on low-spec machines. > Of course, I would be able to continue the regular work, but since I > am what would you call "newbie" I prefere to backup everything and to > work on another computer. There I can still do everything that has to > be done, while letting the first machine build LFS and crash as often > as it would like to, because shit just happens. > In such situations, I use a virtual machine (previously VMware, now KVM) instead of another real machine. > And if I read the informations on the LFS homepage well, the first > question I will be asked when searching help is: "Can you reproduce it > with the LiveCD?" It makes things easier to have a reference system. > Sorry, I can't find this. Could you please give me a link? Anyway, I object to such use of the LiveCD as a reference system and will file a bug against the website if it says so. If people push this, LFS will soon become unbuildable from anything else. As for the package manager - there were some threads on lfs-dev, but the idea got buried because of huge changes that are needed to be done with BLFS, and because some people don't need it. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
