[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Do we still want to support very old hardware, especially low memory system > > (eg. some old sparc, and maybe old 386, 486 as well) ? > > Then you also need a 1.x kernel. 2.0 is wasting mem and 2.2 doesn´t > boot on low mem maschines. I think its safe to assume 8 MB ram for a > linux installation. Everybody else should take a bootdisk from bo or slink.
Is 1.x still supported by slink or potato ? Anyway, I believe sparc is not ;-( But I guess even old sparc have at least 8MB of memory. > > In this case, we need to add a "swap on NFS" patch to the kernel. > > I found one patch for 2.0.35 (sparc) kernel. And for 2.2, NBD could be used > > along with a patch to the networking subsystem > > (http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/nbd/nbd.html). > > I will try to build bootdisks for sparc based on them. > > Hmm, if you can nfs-swap, you will have acess to another maschine, > where you custombuild your kernel and copy that to the boot disk. If > ram is a problem you will want to compile a kernel anyway. Hmm, compiling a sparc kernel on an intel box is somewhat difficult ;-) Btw, I got the nbd patch for 2.1.123 kernel but it fails to apply cleanly on 2.2.12. If I will have spare time this w-e I will try to fix it. Does anybody have experience with NBD and/or swap over NFS ? Regards. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)