[ale] linux on a 486

[Ben Coleman]

On Mon, 06 Aug 2001 07:28:03 -0400, Wandered Inn wrote:

>I've been attempting to load linux on a challenging system.  It's a 486
>with 8 meg of ram.  Mandrake tells you up front to forget it, Red Hat
>will begin to boot, but a couple steps into the install process tells
>you you don't have enough memory.  I fell back on the tried and true
>Slackware which appears to work with limited systems.  In spite of the
>fact that the docs for 8.0 tell you the install requires 16 MB minimum. 
>I figured I'd fire it up, create some extra swap and go with it.  Well,
>I get to the point where it's installing the devs package and, well it's
>still there two days later.  I can go to other virtual consoles and do
>limited stuff, but they begin to hang as well.  I could drop back to an
>earlier version of slack which I know has worked on this box in the
>past, but I'd like to go with latest greatest stuff if possible.

Check the file LOWMEM.TXT on the Slackware install disk for some hints.
 You'll probably want 32MB Swap and you may want to use the lowmem.i
boot disk instead of bare.i.

Ben
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