Subject: Re: RTFM needed for i386sx laptop
To: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/17/2005 19:54:58
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On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 01:53:00AM -0700, John Nemeth wrote:
> } btw. the laptop has 2mb ram only.
>=20
> Not nearly enough memory.=20

At least for the default installer, which runs out of a ramdisk image.

With some very careful work, you might be able to get a system to run
in this little memory, but you'd need some other way of installing -
probably preparing the image elsewhere and writing it to the disk in
another machine.

--
Dan.

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