[ale] linux on a 486

[Douglas Bridges]

You also might want to check out http://7thguard.net/files/DebianHOWTO.txt. 
The link was posted on LinuxToday a couple of days ago. It is a howto on 
installing Debian on a laptop with 4MB of memory. Some of the info might be 
useful.

Doug


>From: KeithH <hne at inetnow.net>
>To: Wandered Inn <esoteric at denali.atlnet.com>
>CC: ale at ale.org
>Subject: Re: [ale] linux on a 486
>Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 22:35:13 +0900
>
>Wandered Inn wrote:
>
>>KeithH wrote:
>>
>>>Wandered Inn wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>What you've said is true, and I'm doing just what you suggest.  The
>>>>point I'd like to make is that if I attempt an install with lowmem.i
>>>>rather then bare.i, the network disk does no good, because when I
>>>>attempt to do a 'modprobe ne io=0x280 irg=10' modprobe returns with
>>>>errors for undefined symbols, which means the kernel does not support
>>>>networking.  Now I did not attempt to find network modules to resolve
>>>>these missing symbols, since I new that bare.i did not return the same
>>>>error.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>   Here's a thought or two for you.
>>>
>>>1)  Move you disk to another machine that has enough memory (yes, I know 
>>>it's a laptop,
>>>but don't you have one of those handy converters?)
>>>
>>
>>Ah, no, know where I can get one?  Or maybe the pin out so I can build
>>one?
>>
>
>
>   Just about any shop in Akihabara that sells laptop drives.  But, if 
>you're in Atlanta,
>I would suggest just about any of the small computer shops, like Prime 
>Computers (Norcross
>or Marietta), Genstar (same), First Computer, or (assuming it still around) 
>Linux General
>Store.  CompUSA might also have them.
>
>   Check the vendor's support web page for your hard drive's pin out specs 
>(although, all
>2.5" should be the same!)
>
>>
>>>and install it there!  Then move the
>>>disk back to the laptop.
>>>
>>>2)  Create your own minimalist boot disk with just the drivers you need.  
>>>It shouldn't
>>>matter what dist you use to create the boot disk, as long as it can load 
>>>Slack's root
>>>disk. (I'm assuming the still use the method.)
>>>
>>
>>Something I may look at.
>>
>>Right now, I'm attempting another Slack install with a 48 mb swap.  I'm
>>still getting random failures, and when I do, I switch to another virt.
>>console and do the install of that piece by hand.  I don't know if this
>>will work, but I'm going to follow this through to either completion, or
>>the point at which the install crashes completely.  Should be an
>>interesting learning experience.  Going on it's third day now, although
>>I'm not able to attend to it immediately.  (ie, failures in the middle
>>of the night, got to get some sleep. )
>>
>>I'll post a summary once this completes or dies. :(
>>
>
>
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