[Gllug] Linux for old 486
Andrew Halliwell
ah at gnd.com
Tue Sep 2 09:05:39 UTC 2003
And verily, didst Alain Williams announce to the hordes:
>
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 04:33:02PM +0100, Tethys wrote:
> >
> > Jason Clifford writes:
> >
> > >You need at least 4MB of physical RAM to load a Linux kernel.
> >
> > Really? Since when? I've installed Linux on a 2.5MB machine. Admittedly,
> > that was a long time ago, and IIRC a 0.99 kernel, and the kernel has
> > grown somewhat since then...
>
> I think that we need to squash this thread before people start boasting as to
> how they installed linux on some tiny machine while sitting in a paper bag :-)
... After working a 28 hour day and only eating gravel for lunch...
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