Re: [OT] Linux hardware requirements

[Niall Parker]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 07:08:54AM +0000, Terry Dawson wrote:
> dpfister wrote:
> > 
> > Has anyone compiled or found a kernel for a very small SBC?
> > Mine has a 386 at 25 or 40 MHz I don't remember with only 2
> > MB of ram and a 8 MB Disk on a Chip sort of HD.
> 
> 2Mb is probably asking for a lot.
> 

I've used the small-linux distro (on metalab) ... a boot, root and supplemental
disk, and if you mount the floppy as root (no ramdisk), the doc's say it
will run in as low as 2 MB. I've tried it on 4 MB and it worked fine, and
/proc/meminfo indicated it only took about 1600000 bytes to boot up.

If that disk on a chip can be used for swap you might be able to do
something useful. It was a 2.0.0 kernel.

                                        ... Niall