With that limited amount of ram you will be limited to the likes of "damn small
linux" which reportedly will run with only 16MB ram. But since I haven't used
it, I don't konw if it meets the requirements to build LFS. You'll have to
give it a test spin and let us know.
Have fun,
Harvey
----- Original Message ----
From: James C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:19:01 PM
Subject: livecd in 16mb RAM?
I've got an old pentium mmx 200mhz 16mb RAM, 3Gig HD that I want to do LFS
with. It's got nothing on it. I don't have any other machine I can put a
linux on at this time. My wife has an OSX laptop I'm using for unix work.
I tried running LiveCD but it froze at unpacking initramfs. I found a thread
in the mailing lists saying that the current version now requires more than
32MB RAM, but that I could pare down the initramfs to make it work with 32MB
RAM.
I tried that but it still freezes in my 16MB Ram machine. What will I need to
do to get to to run in 16MB RAM? How much is used up by the various components
leading up to this? What can I turn off?
thanks
James
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