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Topic: DSL on Laptop with 8MB RAM

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rdorsch

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Posted: 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

rdorsch

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Posted: June 22 2006,21:47

Right now the installation hangs after mounting the root filesystem and the "Welcome to DSL" screen...

MrBear37

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Posted: 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

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