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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I've had no problems getting Slackware to install on a 486 with 8M ram, according to Installation-HOWTO "Technically, Linux will run with only 2 meg, but most installations and software require 4. The more memory you have, the happier you'll be. I suggest 8 or 16 megabytes if you're planning to use X-Windows." The howto is kinda old tho (Nov. 1998), so maybe Debian 2.0's installation requires more.. --Barry - -- "...Deep Hack Mode--that mysterious and frightening state of consciousness where Mortal Users fear to tread." (By Matt Welsh) On 1999年8月28日, Morgan Wajda-Levie wrote: > I just got a 486 from my uncle, which is great. The bad part is that > it only has 4 meg of RAM. I've been trying to install Debian on it, > using the lowmem boot disk, but I've only gotten it to boot once. > This allowed me to create a swap space and a temporary root > partition. I have not yet been able to complete the installation. > > I'm using Debian 2.0, with a 2.1 boot disk. Are there any > distributions that work better on a low memory system? > > Is it worth the trouble? In a few weeks I'll be buying a P3 > motherboard and 64M of ram. This means that a lot of hardware is > going to be moving down the chain. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv Comment: PGP key should be at ftp://ior.staticky.com/pub/<user> iQCVAwUBN8hpqCiDkBFhO6QxAQG8wwP8Dg99MrUVsPVfLGNJ+nvT/OcurdLEXpdQ LnwOZLz41c9drN+4IgH+zHjp76Nte8hQC4of64wWgkEiOzp8g3F4/7DX4F6fVWwh gXQnD6iBk320Ct+1eZBI6YGJGsSwbabKGnyEo4Gh5Qwb2wSq7breQcc/83lfxKlI gKY7mjuiTZM= =vrJJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug