On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:06:17 -0500, Mike
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 05:53, Fergus Wilde wrote:
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 02:55, Glenn Holmer wrote:
I'm trying to get SUSE 9.2 to install on an old machine with just 64M of core and no CD-ROM drive. OK, I built the half-dozen floppy images on another machine and went to install from that machine over HTTP. The install starts, warning me to add swap first (which I do, as there's already a Linux swap partition available), but then it just hangs with the progress bar about 3/4 filled.
Is this even possible in 64M?
I've never had luck with SuSE on the smaller machines. I have 7.2 running on a 166 with 64M, at the time it wasn't a small machine.
I just installed linux on a 486-25 with 12 M of RAM. I used slackware, then did it again using uWoody - this is a debian woody compiled with uclibc. It comes as a root image that you copy to the harddrive then resize, and setup some configuration files (Google should find the start of a howto).
Slackware still supports a floppy based install. 6 disks get things going then you have to move over the tarballs. Some are too big to fit on a floppy so split and cat let you copy them in pieces. Once the networking/modem is set up then you are done with the floppy.
There are many small distros but I find most are no longer in active development, or are very specialized.
RULE http://www.rule-project.org/ tiny linux http://hem.bredband.net/ekmlar/tinylinux.html Puppy linux http://www.goosee.com/puppy/ Amigo Linux OS http://www.amigolinux.org/docs/minstall/AmigoHOWTO.htm Damn small linux http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/download.html Coyote http://www.coyotelinux.com/ tomsrbt http://www.toms.net/rb/ floppix http://floppix.ccai.com/ small linux http://www.superant.com/smalllinux/ mulinux http://mulinux.sunsite.dk/ LEAF http://www.leaf-project.org/
I have bash and gcc on my aero and use it for late night coding when I don't want to go downstairs to the main machine.
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I have checked on my box. SuSE 9.2 should be run on a minimum of 128mb RAM but 256mb is recommended. However, I would imagine that if you don't have X or any GUI installed then you should be ok. I might be trying this myself soon as I have an old Pentium 166 that I want to put to use as a firewall. Wish me luck :-) -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR