[Gllug] Linux for old 486

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 01:52:09PM +0100, Doug Winter wrote:
> On Mon 01 Sep Henrik Morsing wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon 01 Sep Ian Scott wrote:
> > >> Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > You can boot debian off floppies, and install over the network?
> > 
> > Not on 8MB.
> > BSD and Minix does require less RAM.
> 
> whoops missed that.  Debian needs 12Mb minimum.  soz.

But in practice > 16 MB. I have a 16 MB laptop running Debian/testing,
and it swaps like hell whenever dpkg runs (the rest of the stuff is
fine however).

Rich.

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