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Posted: April 18 2005,16:55 QUOTE
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?

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Posted: April 18 2005,21:06 QUOTE
8Meg is much to low to try to run X, either get more ram or run as command line

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Posted: April 18 2005,21:26 QUOTE
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.

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Posted: April 19 2005,09:56 QUOTE
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.
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Posted: April 19 2005,11:54 QUOTE
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 :)

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