Hi Remco,
We managed this fine on an 80mb drive with Slakware 2.0.30 and 2.0.36 ... as
long as we kept X and other unnecesary stuff out of the installation.
Originally we did get the system up with the kernel sources and c compiler
present, but had to abandon these once we had fbb running and filling the
hard-drive with mail files. For us this was not a problem as we had other linux
boxes to do compilations on. With a total of 280mb though you should not have
these problems.
We had 70mb linux partition and 10 for swap. Like you we had 4mb ram and found
that 10mb swap was suficient with this. We did try with no swap partition, but
had contunial memory problems.
Cheers
Matt (g7nvw - remote sysop oanet.ampr.org)
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, you
wrote: > >%_Hi,
>
> Since I only know full linux distributions (SuSE, RedHat), taking up a lot of system
>resources (HD space, Memory), I was wondering if the following is possible.
>
> I have an old 486sx-25 mhz. Only 4mb of memory.
> There's an 40 MB harddisk in it, and a 240 MB HD. It also has an ethernet controller.
>
> I would like to run a packet on it, it may be very minimal, but it has to do at
>least the following:
>
> Packet with a 1200bd baycom type modem (TCM3105)
> Coppying (rxecho) data from the baycom-port to another PC via a serial link.
>
> Another PC will do the fancy stuff, but i NEED the old 486 to serve as a front end
>to the radioport.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Remco
>
>
>
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