Subject: Re: Kernel diet
To: Mark White <mark.white@st-edmund-hall.oxford.ac.uk>
From: Tomasz Luchowski <zuntum@eik.pl>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/02/2001 08:14:40
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 10:51:45PM +0000, Mark White wrote:
>   mw> It's a 386SX-25, with 120Mb hard disk, 4Mb RAM (yep,
>   mw> four), a floppy drive and an NE2000 clone NIC.  Installation
>   mw> was accomplished...using an old boot-tiny to create a 20Mb
>   mw> swap partition, then interrupting the 1.5 boot-tiny sysinst to
>   mw> activate it before continuing.  I built an 1100kb kernel for it
>   mw> on my main machine, and got pretty much all the stuff needed
>   mw> into about 60Mb of disk space.
> 
> >>>>> On Sun 31/12/00, "asb" = Andrew Steven Ball wrote:
> 
>   asb> That's excellent news!  Can I ask what you compiled into the
>   asb> kernel?
> 
> I've put it up at:
> 
>     http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sedm0797/susan/
IMHO it would be nice to include this kernel config as sample one
in syssrc/arch/i386/conf/, because we don't have example kernel
which works on 4MB machines, like SUSAN (correct me if I'm wrong).

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