[gentoo-dev] Installing using GRUB

[Jan Henkins]

Hi there,

Thanks for your page on alternative methods to install Gentoo.

A niggly question:

The machine I want to install Gentoo on is (don't laugh) a P133 with 
only 32Mb RAM. So far every time I boot via a GRUB disk using the kernel 
and initrd on the install CD (via TFTP from another Linux machine) I get 
kernel panics with the message that there is not enough RAM. OK, that 
would make sense, let's face it that this is as marginal as it gets. 
Unfortunately I'm stuck with the specs as it is, I cannot find other 72 
pin SIMMs to replace what I have to up the memory a bit.

The question is, do you have any tips regarding making things happen, 
like a smaller kernel (monolithic) or smaller ramdisk image that might 
work? I cannot boot from CD with this particular machine, that's why the 
GRUB trick looked like it could save me (still could, I suppose). The 
commandline I used with the GRUB bootdisk follows the instructions 
closely, but not even playing with the ramdisk_size parameter do I get 
joy. Any thoughts/tips/flames would be welcome.

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Regards,
Jan Henkins
Project Manager: Obsidian-Transtel Linux Project
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