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Hi Dirk, |
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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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On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Dirk Uys <dirkcuys@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi |
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> I think that any of the live CDs are going to give you problems with 64MB |
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> RAM. I think the minimal ISO is a live CD that allows you to install Gentoo |
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> from there. You can try installing another distro on the harddrive and then |
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> installing gentoo using that distro. |
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> Compiling Gentoo on such an old machine is very brave, I hope you intend to |
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> use distcc. |
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> Regards |
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> Dirk |
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> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan < |
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> sharuzzaman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I have an old Pentium machine with 64MB RAM that I planned to install |
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>> Gentoo. |
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>> I download Gentoo x86 minimal ISO and burn it to disk. The disk was able |
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>> to boot, but not able to give the command prompt, with error "cp: write |
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>> error: No space left on device" during copying to tempfs |
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>> This symptom is reproducible in Virtualbox with 64MB RAM. |
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>> Any idea how to overcome this issue? |
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>> Gentoo documentation mention that Gentoo should be installable on 64MB RAM |
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>> machine. |
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>> Thanks. |
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>> Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan |
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Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan |
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