linda hanigan wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> I have an old 486 with 4 meg of ram I am trying
> to install linux on. I managed to get the floppy
> drives switched so I can now boot from a
> 3 1/2" floppy it goes through all the messages
> till
> RAMDISK compressed Image Found at block 0
> then it quits. Does this mean that their isn't
> enough memory to run the installation program.
> Someone said they had linux running with 4meg
> of ram on a 386 is it a different version?
> I don't have a CD drive so I got an ISA networking
> card and hope to do a ftp installation if I ever
> get that far.
AFAIK, a minimal setup will run with 4 megs, but you'll need at least 8
to install. I had to try it a half dozen times on an 8 meg laptop
before it actually got far enough in the install to create and activate
the swap partition. After that, it went okay. That was using a
Backpack CD-ROM drive; I've never tried a low-memory ftp install. I'd
get more RAM, unless you just want to use it as a router...
Steve
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