Hi, as far as I know, Debian should work with 4MB, but you need at least 12MB for installation (maybe you can borrow it somewhere?). You can save loads of memory with shutting down/removing everything that you do not need and compile the kernel as small as possible. Today I discovered that you can disable the virtual consoles, so you save some mem. Maintenance must be done from another host. Also building in a big swap would help.
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, DSC Lithuania wrote: > > We are trying to set up an old 4-MB, 386 system (described below) with Linux, > to use it as a mini-email > server for a Windows 95/98 ethernet network. We are in Lithuania, which > means that there is a lot does that mean that you are in the middle of nowhere? > of hardware that is unavailable, including (at the moment) old SIMMS, so we > can't upgrade the memory. Greetz, Sebastiaan
