Re: Linux on 386 EX SBC Card

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 17:21:36 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Riley Williams wrote:

> 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...

If you leave out things like procfs, sysctl, disk drivers,
filesystems and networking stuff, you should be able to get
a very small kernel...

You probably only need a ROMfs driver and serial support,
possibly an in-kernel unzip program so you can load the
zipped program from ROM/flash.

Rik.
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