DSL on Laptop with 8MB RAMForum: HD Install Topic: DSL on Laptop with 8MB RAM started by: rdorsch Posted by rdorsch on June 22 2006,20:44
Hello,I would like to install DSL on a Laptop with 8 MB RAM w/o a CDROM. Does that make sense at all or is DSL too large for such a system?? I booted the bootfloppy.img, but during bootup the floppy hang (both with no further option and with lowmem). TinyLinux installs fine, so it seems to be at least not a hardware issue. What would be the right debug data to provide? Thanks. Rainer Posted by rdorsch on June 22 2006,21:47
Right now the installation hangs after mounting the root filesystem and the "Welcome to DSL" screen...
Posted by MrBear37 on June 23 2006,11:46
Greetings.. It goes without saying that for me, DSL is the best thing around. That aside, for your hardware I would think you have a few options. Find an embedded version of Linux that would only take a miniscule amount of Ram to run. ( I admittedly dont know what Embedded DSL takes). Embeded DSL, uClinux, something like that.. Alternatively something else that is NOT linux.. like Minix, Menuet, Symphony.. a few others as such.. Just a few suggestions to ponder. It kills me when I hear people refer to older hardware as useless. There is even developement still on going for DOS. OK.. Carpe Diem ! Peace, Mark |