Hello everybody, this is my first post to this list. Some time ago I wanted to upgrade an old laptop (Toshiba T4900CT, from 1994) from Debian Etch to Debian Lenny. Unfortunately dpkg (resp. apt-get or aptitude) was running out of memory. The maximum amount of RAM for this laptop is limited to 40 MB.
I use this laptop for daily work for many years now. The limited memory is no problem for this purpose. All programs I need, run fine with this amount of RAM (jed, latex, tin, mutt, fbi, fbgs, links). The only problem seems to be dpkg or associated programs, like aptitude oder apt-get. Strangely enough, the laptop has 256 MB of swap-space which dpkg (aptitude, apt-get) seem to ignore. Other programs use swap, so it should be no general problem. I know this laptop is old hardware and modern hardware is cheap. But I got used to this machine so much and I would really love to keep it alive. Plus I would like to continue using Debian. I tried NetBSD on it. It works fine but I prefer Debian. So could someone tell me please, how I could use dpkg with max. 40 MB of RAM or how I could tell dpkg to use swap-space? TIA, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
