[ale] 486/8 meg memory as a gateway?

[Glenn C. Lasher Jr.]

That is basically what I had done a year or so ago with a Toshiba luggable
machine (gas-plasma display type).  It had 4MB RAM and a 200MB HDD, and I
had tossed all of the relevant parts of a slackware install on a zip disk
and booted with their ppa.s boot image.  I used it for a terminal on
customer sites for configuring routers since the company I worked for at
the time was too cash-strapped to get me a laptop.

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Wandered Inn wrote:

> Dan Newcombe wrote:
> 
> > As to the original question, you may have a problem installing depending
> > on what hardware it has. 
> 
> Well it's done, but it was fun.
> 
> I started off with SuSE 6.4.  Got to the install screen, and it
> immediately told me to go to another virtual console, create some swap
> and enable it.  I did so, went through just about the whole install
> process and got to a point where it threw up a generic, 'something
> broke' error.  I did tried it twice with the same outcome.
> 
> I then attempted Corel Linux as I had a cdrom that came with a mag I
> picked up a while back.  A pretty window popped up saying it was
> attempting to install, after 8 hours I killed it.
> 
> Next, I tried TurboLinux, but no luck.
> 
> Then I went to Slackware.  I could get it to boot with the bare.i disk,
> but couldn't get fdisk to return successfully when I had to set up the
> partitions.  The Slackware docs said that it would be difficult to do an
> install with under 16 meg, but that the lowmem.i boot disk was designed
> for just such a situation.   I tried lowmem.i but it wouldn't even boot
> with that.
> 
> Then I got a wierd idea.  Since SuSE would get me as far as enabling
> some swap, I thought I'd create the swap that way and then do a
> Slackware install.  So, I booted to the SuSE install, created the swap
> partition, stuck the Slackware disk in, got to a root prompt, enabled
> the swap and then was able to do a successful Slackware install (kernel
> 2.2.16).
> 
> 
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