On Sat, 13 May 2000, Nathan Hand wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 10:47:08AM -0400, Rich Bryant wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 10 May 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 18:35:00 -0400 (EDT)
> > > From: Rich Bryant <rfb6435@osfmail.isc.rit.edu>
> > >
> > > Thanks for the response(Both Ted and Steve) I agree that changing the
> > > kernel isn't something easy and I am being asked to make or atleast look
> > > into some very major changes in order to fit a linux system into a very
> > > small system.
> > >
> > > How small is small in this case?
> >
> > About as small as it gets. 486 microprocessor, 8254, 16550, 8259 a boot
> > ROM and A 32M SIMM. Originally the system was supposed to be burned to the
> > ROM and operate out of ram disk, but we didn't realize how large the
> > libraries required by the executables were.
>
> Sheesh, I still recall that one of the earlier Linux distros I used had
> special installation instructions if you only had 2mb of ram. I was one
> of the lucky ones because at the time I was proudly running with 4mb on
> a 386. You can get a lot smaller than a 486 with 32mb.
I realize that, but I don't have any type of disk drive.... My boot medium
isn't large enough to hold the file system and kernel. I have plenty of
ram after that, but it also has to be used as RAMDISK.
-Rich
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