On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 06:51:50PM +0000, Steven C. Darnold wrote: > I have just produced a special installation routine for > Slackware 8.1 that works with 4mb RAM. It gives you a > functional installation that occupies just 26mb of HD > space. You can then install any Slackware 8.1 package > using pkgtool (Slackware's menu-driven package manager). > > I have just uploaded it to: > --------------------------------------------- > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/slack81.zip > --------------------------------------------- > The size is 1.1mb. You will also need to download 10mb > of packages from Slackware 8.1 (the package names are > listed in slack81.zip).
Bravo! I have just installed this from a FreeDOS partition on a 485sx25 with 8 meg ram. I had been running BL 1.7 (Slack 3.5) on a 386dx25 with 5 meg ram, but blew the power supply a few days ago. I am also running a hybrid of BL 1.7 with the Smalllinux version 2.0 kernel (1.0.9) on a 386sx16 laptop with less than 2 meg ram (640k + 1024k). > Let me know if there are any problems. Once I renamed all the Slackware packages to .tgz, this install seemed much simpler than installing BL 1.7 to hard drive. Minor point - I don't think I was able to reboot from Linux with Ctrl- Alt-Del, so I simply used "reboot" instead. As far as I am concerned, if you are able to install this version of Linux on your hardware, the only thing you really need DOS for, is the installation itself. Howard E. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
