From: hagan@freya.cs.umass.edu (Craig I. Hagan) Subject: Re: SLS with 2 Megs Date: 9 Feb 1993 02:55:59 GMT
In article <1993Feb4.121927.31641@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> jrc5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Josh Robert Cohen) writes:
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From: jrc5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Josh Robert Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Date: 4 Feb 93 12:19:27 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University
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I was under the impression that Linux would work with 2meg, which it
does, 0.98 non SLS. However, the SLS install dies for me cause of the
ramdisk. Does anyone know how I can circumvent this to install with
only 3 megs ram??
Please email me...
I noticed a similar problem with a machine that i was installing linux
on. I think that the SLS dist, due to the ramdisk, actually requires
f4 megs for the install (it works well with less afterwards).
what i did was to borrow some memory for about 1hr, up the box
(it was a 386sx/16 with 2mb) to 4mb, install linux (with a rather
liberal swap partition), then downgrade it back to 2mb, and
give the memory back to the (impatient) owner.
I think that it might be a good idea for the FAQ sheets to be updated
with this information, if it seems to be a common problem.
-- craig