[H-GEN] small memory install

[Martin Pool]

On 28 Dec 2000, Ben Fowler <b1.fowler at student.qut.edu.au> wrote:

> >Unfortunately, I'm having trouble finding a way to 
> install. The confounding 
> >factor is that the box only has 2Mb of RAM, which I 
> think makes most boot 
> >disk images unfeasible. (I don't think the fact that 
> its a laptop is a 
> >problem, at least not yet). Its 80Mb hard drive should 
> be fine for a minimal 
> >install with perhaps an 8Mb swap partition, I figure.

> You could do this, albeit with great difficulty.  About
> three years ago, I tried (and just managed to do each
> of a Debian and Slackware install on a system with
> 4 megs of RAM and 200 megs of disk space).  As for
> now, if you want Red Hat or Debian, you may well
> be out of luck (on both memory _and_ disk space).

Wow.  That's either very hacky, or very masochistic.  I guess you
might try the install by building a filesystem image on some other
system, and then dd'ing it onto the hd from floppy.  You might even
try jumping back to a 1.x kernel, in the hope that the code would be
smaller and they'll be better tuned for such a tiny machine.

--
Martin
triple points for getting emacs to boot
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