Re: Low Memory Install?

2001-06-08 Thread Martin Feeney
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001 20:04:55 Geordie Birch wrote: > i have a 486 laptop with 4MB RAM and 125MB HDD. average free disk space > is around 10MB! > > it swaps a lot but otherwise works fine. What do you use it for? I have a similar machine (486sx25/4MB/250MB) that I'm thinking of using as a NAT/DH

Re: Low Memory Install?

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:16:45PM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: | I have a friend who's interested in getting my help to install Linux | for the first time... but his spare machine only has 4MB of RAM. The | last time I tried to install Linux on a machine with that little RAM | was in 1996 or 1

Re: Low Memory Install?

2001-06-07 Thread Geordie Birch
said Kenneth Pronovici (on 2001-06-07), > I have a friend who's interested in getting my help to install Linux > for the first time... but his spare machine only has 4MB of RAM. The > last time I tried to install Linux on a machine with that little RAM > was in 1996 or 1997 when I was using RedHa

Re: Low Memory Install?

2001-06-07 Thread Geordie Birch
said Geordie Birch (on 2001-06-07), > said Kenneth Pronovici (on 2001-06-07), > > > I have a friend who's interested in getting my help to install Linux > > for the first time... but his spare machine only has 4MB of RAM. The > > last time I tried to install Linux on a machine with that little RA

Re: Low Memory Install?

2001-06-07 Thread John Patton
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:16:45PM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > I have a friend who's interested in getting my help to install Linux > for the first time... but his spare machine only has 4MB of RAM. The > last time I tried to install Linux on a machine with that little RAM > was in 1996 or 1

Re: Low memory install help

1998-05-20 Thread Lindsay Allen
Are we talking bo here? The following applies to bo and may well work with hamm but I have not yet tried it. The trick with a low-mem install is this; when you get to the "boot: " prompt answer with "linux floppy0". After that just follow instructions but note that along the way you will need

Re: Low Memory Install

1998-01-12 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, mray01 wrote: > > I am attempting to install debian on a 386/16 with 4mb RAM. How do I go > about booting the lmemroot.bin disk? Do I need to pass a special argument > using resc1440.bin? Boot the resq disk. When you get to the "boot:" prompt tell it "floppy0" and then f