Re: Knoppix in 8meg ram

Hallo Baeckeroot,

> Hello DLP
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> Le vendredi 23 Juillet 2004 10:37, DLP a =E9crit :
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> > > Will Knoppix work in 8meg ram with a large swap file?
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> > Please keep in mind that autodetection will be poor on old (ISA)
> > systems!
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> > Greetings
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> > Achim
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> > The unit is actually a Pentium 133 with 8meg ram  1.2gig HD. IBM
> > Thinkpad. The problem is that after asking my question I found that
> > it won't boot from the CD drive. Oh well.
> > Thanks for the answer.
> > Butch in Florida
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> You can make a boot-floppy with knoppix 3.3 (for 3.4 i dont know)
> ou try DamnSmallLinux (a really nice damn small Knoppix :)
> http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ =20
Yes, it is a great distro, but it uses linux 2.4, which is unnecessary
big. A 2.2 or 2.0 will save some memory. You have to care for every bit
with just 8 MB!

Have a nice time

Achim
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> greetings
> Alain
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