[tomsrtbt] The bare minimum: 4Meg laptop

[Piet van Unen]

Dear Tom,   I am fihting with a problem, maybe you will ask ?why?   I got a ten years old laptop. and ofcourse the first thing I did was putting Tomsrtbt on it.   I was luckey! I used V1.7.140. There was a prompt   UH-OH! No RAM for /usr. Runlevel 4! (None):login:                     Press any key accept Enter and you see:                                         Warning using echo for ls I used ls, mount, fdisk, mkswap, swapon, dd, cpio.   the 84Mb disk has f4 partitions: /usr runs on /dev/hda6 swap on /dev/hda7 /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda5 are msdos   Why?? I used it and learned more from the basics of Linux. And it is a good demonstation tool to explain the basics of Linux.   Then I tried V1.7.361 and V2.0.203. The 361 version did not stop after the login prompt, but tried to load /usr and died. The 203 version had other problems, I thing with the bzip2 unpacking.   I analysed the the 140 and 361 .The difference is the login via login.s and the login.lua. I tried to edit the /etc/rc.S deleting the second init 5, changing it to init 4.   Has anyone a solution for my problem? Is it possible to login with a rebuilt of the 1.7.361 disk or what to do with the V2.0.203. I am mostly interested in 4k RAM part!   --Piet