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Dale writes: |
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> Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote: |
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> > Yes I noticed that. Most websites that I search for did not recommend |
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> > running Linux live-cd on 64MB RAM. |
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> > Looks like to have to search for distro that is tailored for embedded |
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> > system. |
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> > Thanks. |
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> You may want to check on Damn Small Linux. One of the older versions |
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> may work with that amount of ram. |
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They all will, DSL normally needs only 16 MB of RAM. But be sure to use the |
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slightly larger DSL-N version, because it has the 2.6 version of the linux |
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kernel. Normal DSL uses kernel 2.4, and this will not allow to chroot. |
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Here are some other small distributions: |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Linux_distribution |
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Wow, BasicLinux only needs 3MB (with kernel 2.2). And Tiny Core Linux would |
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even run from RAM, but I do not know if it uses kernel 2.6. |
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But as Dale wrote, compiling also needs some RAM. Installing a stage3 system |
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would work, maybe also compiling the kernel (although that (and |
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/lib/modules) could probably be copied from the live-cd). But compiling more |
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would not be fun. Distcc would help, but maybe creating the binary packages |
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on another machine would be better. |
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Um, why do you want to use gentoo on such a system anyway? If it will be a |
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text-only system, being used as router or something, okay, this would |
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probably work, but other distros could do this as well. |
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I was also tempted to put Gentoo onto an old PIII laptop with 192 MB of RAM, |
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just because I had trouble with other distros - Ubuntu sucks. But then I |
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restrained from doing this. |
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Wonko |
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