On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:16:45PM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > I have a friend who's interested in getting my help to install Linux > for the first time... but his spare machine only has 4MB of RAM. The > last time I tried to install Linux on a machine with that little RAM > was in 1996 or 1997 when I was using RedHat 4.2. RedHat's installer > wouldn't even run properly on a machine with that little RAM, and I > ended up falling back on an older "low memory" version of Slackware. > > My question is: can I successfully complete a minimal Debian install > with only 4MB of RAM, or is this a losing proposition that's just going > to frustrate me?
Debian is ultimately designed to be a full fledged linux system. You may very well get it to fit... but it will be a squeez. You may want to look into something like Small Linux (http://www.superant.com/smalllinux/), which was specifically designed to work within 4 mb's of ram. You can even run a tiny version of X with it. I'm not sure what you could do with such a system, but it may be fun. -- John Patton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get my GnuPG public key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." - General John B. Sedgwick Last words, 1864
