Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic <at> googlemail.com> writes: > > Note that the Debian kernel does not use initrd to boot (to the > > finally installed system), especially as those tools are built > > with klibc, which is currently still broken on m68k, and thus
> I wasn't aware of that. Yeah. I have started trying to fix that, though ☺ see the other mail of today. > That's what I was suggesting - a stripped down kernel tailored to the TT > could then > be 'distributed' (like you do with other stuff from your people.d.o > page) to those > that need it. That would indeed be possible and not too hard (Debian has tools for that, and if must, these could even be cross-built). > Not that a total of 8 MB RAM would be a lot of fun to run today's kernel > and userland on. Indeed. I did that for a friend’s i486 laptop, and I’ve got one of those myself as well except it has 12 MiB. MirBSD works – barely. (I could go multiuser on the 12 MiB RAM one, but decided to not do it; it’s enough for 3 virtual consoles, GNU screen, lynx, ssh client, tinyirc. Not my regular IRC client sirc, as that one’s written in Perl. So, definitively no stock Linux distribution…) bye, //mirabilos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
