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["Ron Clarke" <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>]

Hi Steven,

    I finally got to make a HD installation of BL2-02, on a '486, 33 MHz
with 16 MB RAM. I used the whole 125 MB disk D:.

    But.....  no pkgtool or installpkg - unknown command !

    I thought something was not running right when the last 6 or 7 lines
of the install routine were:

"something      invalid something magic"

  It boots OK, but then gives me an error message, says REBOOT, gives me
a strange login, which is ignored, and finally gives the familiar BL
login as root.

   Sorry to be less than specific, but that rig is now disassembled to
make room for cooking. (kitchen bench).

   Did I get a corrupted xxx.tgz ?   If so, which one is the most likely ?

Or do you need accurate chapter and verse to give me a pointer as to
what to replace, which I can run later today when the kitchen bench is
once more available for its primary function ?

Regards,
        Ron



Ron Clarke
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I typed free when I had just started BL2 and I think it was taking up 4M
RAM without running any programs (the hard drive version).  How does one
interpret the numbers?

I got Arachne running on a 286 with 1M RAM.  It helped a lot to delete
all the icons and turn off graphics (you can view individual images) but
it was really slow.  Arachne does not handle a lot of HTML, not even
counting the ssl and javascript.  You need to replace the djpeg with a
16-bit version.  Nettamer will also work, very slowly, on an XT.

I got Lynx working on a 386 with 3M RAM at reasonable speed and I can just
click on the images to view them individually.  You need a version
compiled without NSL - the full-size one would not work at all for me.
Contact me or Doug Kaufman for a copy of Lynx 2.8.5 for DOS. Will Links or
Lynx run on 4M RAM in Linux?

Is this a laptop with no way to add RAM?  

On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Neo Sze Wee wrote:
> > 
> > > > If I have a very old 486 with 4 ram
> >
> > If I am using the latest svgalib and I still have 
> > problem with links 2.x, what do you think is the problem? 
> 
> It could be RAM.  4mb RAM is too little to run the latest
> libraries, the latest binaries and the latests kernels
> (even with 8mb RAM, it is not easy).  It is unrealistic
> to expect a graphical browser with ssl and javascript to
> run on 4mb RAM in Linux.  If you need a graphical browser
> on such a machine, I suggest you look at Arachne running 
> in DOS.
>   
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
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