> - Would tomsrtbt boot on an 4MB-machine with a SWAP-partition? No. Search the list archives for some history on this. Basically, you still have problems, because of the ramdisks that tomsrtbt uses, and because bzip2 uses so much memory really randomly. There are 2 approaches, depending on what you are trying to accomplish: (1), if you just want to get it booting on a 4MB machine, on which you have control over the partitions, is the one described in the archives. Basically, it involves copying over the tomsrtbt root and boot partitions to a hard drive partition, booting from that with no ramdisk, then with swap, you can un-bzip2 the /usr partition, onto the hard drive, you basically need both swap _and_ no ramdisks to expand /usr on a 4M machine. (2), if you want a rescue system that boots from floppy on a 4M machine, you should just make a 2 floppy system with the kernel on diskette 1 and the root filesystem directly on diskette 2- and run from that diskette. Yes, it will be slow, but ramdisks are just not a good idea with 4 MEGS... -Tom
