minimal suse install on low-mem laptop
I'm planning to install some flavor of linux on an old Toshiba 425CDT laptop. This laptop has "only" 8M RAM, so a normal SuSE install seems to be not possible. I can get the system to boot off a floppy, but I get errors from Yast (any version) when it tries to do it's thing, most likely due to low memory. All I need is a minimal install. The laptop is going to be used as a data-gathering and monitoring system for a weather station and solar power generator. It'll be attached to a LAN and be running a web server and some custom cgi (perl) scripts. At this point I'm not even sure if I'll be putting X on it, though I might run Perl/Tk scripts on it with the gui/windows on another computer over the LAN. So anyway, is there an easy way to get a -minimal- (kernel, networking, and rpm for apache & perl) SuSE on this computer? I have CDs for 7.1 and 6.1, and I guess I could hack something together easily enough from them to get the job done. I'm just wondering if it might be easier still to start with another distro in the first place. Anyone done this sort of thing before? Any suggestions? TIA, -John
On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 18:43, John Grant wrote:
I'm planning to install some flavor of linux on an old Toshiba 425CDT laptop. This laptop has "only" 8M RAM, (....)
OK, so far I see no answers to your post. That's sad, cause in some way that would have interested me too :-(( First thing coming to my mind, I think there is an SDB article about installation on a system with very low memory. Did you check this ? Unluckily I have no idea how this article was called or which URL it is. Next idea, maybe peanutlinux could rescue you? I only heared of the name and don't know how it works, but as far as I remember it ships 'all inclusive' on a 150MB image available e.g. at linuxiso.org, so you can dl this and burn your install CD - I hope it does include a boot floppy image which you will need for creating your bootdisk. Hope that can help for the beginning .... Wolfi ================================== mailto:wolfi_z@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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I'm planning to install some flavor of linux on an old Toshiba 425CDT laptop. This laptop has "only" 8M RAM, so a normal SuSE install seems to be not possible. I can get the system to boot off a floppy, but I get errors from Yast (any version) when it tries to do it's thing, most likely due to low memory.
All I need is a minimal install. The laptop is going to be used as a data-gathering and monitoring system for a weather station and solar power generator. It'll be attached to a LAN and be running a web server and some custom cgi (perl) scripts. At this point I'm not even sure if I'll be putting X on it, though I might run Perl/Tk scripts on it with the gui/windows on another computer over the LAN.
So anyway, is there an easy way to get a -minimal- (kernel, networking, and rpm for apache & perl) SuSE on this computer? I have CDs for 7.1 and 6.1, and I guess I could hack something together easily enough from them to get the job done. I'm just wondering if it might be easier still to start with another distro in the first place. Anyone done this sort of thing before? Any suggestions?
try this: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/sk_486.html I installed afair 7.0 on a laptop with 8MB and it worked fine, beside that it was a little bit slow :-) X also runs, i prefer for this kind of installations icewm. anyway, if possible try to get some more ram. -- cu Martin malasa@gmx.de --- http://freshmeat.net/projects/pin/
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