Re: Linux on 386 EX SBC Card

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:26:06 +0100

rhw@bigfoot.com said:
> Can Linux run in only 2M of RAM? I've always needed more than that,
> and the least I've managed with so far is 6M to install, and 3.5M to
> run the installed system, but the latter was with a RamDisk to take
> the strain...

The first box I ever ran Linux on, which we put into service as a PPP router
in my first term at Cambridge when we got pissed off with the PADs, only had
2Mb on it. We had to increase it to 4Mb to install Slackware, ISTR.

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