4MB RAM machines are no longer supported. Probably it would be possible to design a prompts-for-swap space version, but, it is not on my to-do list...
-Tom On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Piet van Unen wrote: > Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:11:24 +0200 > From: Piet van Unen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [tomsrtbt] The bare minimum: 4Meg laptop > > 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 > > > >
