Installing XFree86 on 32mb laptop

Forum: Apps
Topic: Installing XFree86 on 32mb laptop
started by: eirikr

Posted by eirikr on June 10 2006,06:58

Hi,

Is there a XFree86.uci that I can download? I am trying to install XFree86 on an IBM TP 560E with 32MB RAM. myDSL doesn't work. After searching the board, I tried moving /usr to the HD to increase the size of the ramdisk and that didn't work either. I think I am running out of I nodes but I am not sure. hda2:100MB for DSL, hda5: 800MB for /opt, /home and hda6: 320MB swap.

It is a frugal install and I want to avoid a full install. hda1 has a win95 partition that I'd like to save. I tried both DSL 2.4 and 3.0RC2

Is there a XFree86.uci that I can download? Can somebody tell me how to load the uci, if it exists? If not, can someone give me some pointers on what I should change in the configure files to make XFree86 self-contained and run in /opt ?

Or am I just trying to do something that's impossible and I should just stop screwing around??

Addtional info:
I want to try making a XFree86.uci, as suggested here:
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....58;st=5 >

I tried to compile (an failed) a few times to create an uci extension from source as explained here:
< http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/talk/node/85 >
but that is way too much for a Linux newbie.

Posted by eirikr on June 10 2006,07:00

BTW, I used a PC with Mandrake 10 installed to compile XFree86, not DSL

Posted by kerry on June 10 2006,07:48

If your still using 3.0 roberts just annouced a XFree86.unc is ready.

Posted by eirikr on June 13 2006,01:30

Big thank you Kerry!! Finally got the XFree86.unc working. I didn't know I have to startx from /home/dsl directory.

Posted by JB4x4 on June 13 2006,02:56

You've got XFree86 working with a frugal install and 32meg of memory....... Great !!