Re: 8MB Laptop and Debian

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, ShieldX wrote:

> I have this old 486 laptop, and was able to install Slackware
> with floppies and NFS but I really wanted apt-get.
>
> I did a Sarge base install onto a box with 64M of ram,
> then copied all the files over to the laptop's root partition
> with tomsrtbt, then installed Lilo with that nifty chroot program.
> When I boot, the kernel loads, stuff happens, then it silently freezes
> while loading the ramdisk.
>
> I think there's no memory to load it into, and the swap hasn't started yet,
> Is there any way to start swap early, or effectively strip down the kernel
> and recompile?

Maybe you can put the slackware kernel in place and boot the Debian system
with it.

Jeremy C. Reed

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