2008/10/26 Tzafrir Cohen Wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 07:41:52PM -0300, Maximiliano Marin Bustos wrote: >> I'm creating a minimalist distribution which it can runs on an old machine >> with 64 mb RAM and a core Intel Petium I. My distro will starts a web > > Won't a live CD waste memory by using ramdisk to store files (at least > changes)? I assume that your disk space is not that limited. If so, you > can also use some swap to ease the burdon.
Yep - I can recommend this method. A while ago, before Debian-live, I modified a Debian based, liveCD, to use disk space as RAM - so the liveCD could run in RAM (if this is not an oxymoron). I managed to get a 486 with 12Mb to boot. It ran a photo slide show (inside a photo frame), could also browse but was slow ~ 2 minutes to display a page. Something like... If RAM<X && BOOTPARAMETER; mount (BOOTPARAMETER) /dev/shm. Where BOOTPARAMETER was a partition already formatted a s swap space. Hope this helps, Brendan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
