Laptops :: Booting Laptop with 8Mb of RAM

I have a very Laptop called "Robin" with:
8Mb RAM
800Mb HD
Floppy
USB
No Ethernet

When I try to boot I get a beautiful:

mount: Out of memory
/linuxrc: Cannot fork

Is there a way to limit memory usage on boot or booting with a simple shell without mounting "knoppix/knoppix" image?

Bye

8Meg is much to low to try to run X, either get more ram or run as command line

Brian
AwPhuch

This appens when I'm booting, I think that the kernel occupies too mutch memory so te initrd can't be loaded.

What are the the sources of the kernel?
I'll try to make a small kernel suitable for my laptop.

Bye

Writing "dsl 2" (without quotes) at the boot:-prompt will launch you into command line (at least is does in DSL 0.8.3).

If you want X-windows with only 8 MB, take a look at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/.

I doubt that recompiling the kernel will help much.

I tryed with "dsl 2 ramdisk_size=4096" but nothing.

I was trying to boot with DSL because I want to install a real Operating System (now I Installed FreeDOS an muLinux) but there is no way to use plip or slip to transfer files between PCs.

I'll try to make my kernel ... I'll get the sources now

Bye

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