On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Brendan Sleight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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] > > Thanks for the answers!! I'll make test with a recompiled 2.6 kernel with minimal functions and i'll think about swap space. Now, my question is: Which option i must modify if i want use an own compiled kernel? Greetz -- Atte, Maximiliano Marin http://blogs.opensur.org/maximilinux
