Re: Kernel compile...

Paul Gortmaker (Paul.Gortmaker@anu.edu.au)
Tue, 28 May 1996 22:21:52 +1000 (EST)


- From Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net)
Mon, 27 May 1996 08:56:06 -0400

> Bryn Paul Arnold Jones writes:
> >Won't work, you need 2 Mb to boot, see
> >http://www.redhat.com:8080/HyperNews/get/khg.html for more.
>
> Go there and look at the tour, where you will find a pointer to
> the "Memory Savers" page, which shows how to boot with only 1 MB.
> I'd give the URL here, except that I don't remember it off the
> top of my head and don't have it handy...

It is at:

http://rsphy1.anu.edu.au/~gpg109/mem.html

The crazy nut actually has a two disk set that will boot and install on
a machine with only 896kB RAM. I'd hate to think how much time the fool
wasted on getting that to work. Oh well, it takes all kinds... ;-)

Paul.