[Gllug] Linux for old 486

[Jason Clifford]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Henrik Morsing wrote:

> > You can boot debian off floppies, and install over the network?
> 
> Not on 8MB.
> BSD and Minix does require less RAM.

You need at least 4MB of physical RAM to load a Linux kernel.

While you might need to compile a kernel specifically for it you can 
certainly load and run Linux on a machine with 8MB of RAM - just make sure 
you have sufficient swap for your needs.

Jason Clifford
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