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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> > I put disk 1 into a computer which only has 8MB RAM,
> > hit Ctrl-C instead of Enter, and it worked perfectly.
> > Have you tried this?
>
> Not with 8mb RAM.
>
> > df told me 51% of the space was use and I had about 2MB free.
>
> That 2mb is filesystem space.  I'm more worried about
> the amount of free memory.

Under 1MB free with both ramdisks mounted.
The same with the second umounted but there is 4MB buffer.

> > If the second ramdisk is there, would there be some way to
> > remove it so as to use the RAM for other purposes?
>
> You could umount it (but I'm not sure whether that will
> free up all the RAM).  Perhaps reformatting (mke2fs) the
> ramdisk to something tiny might work?

How do I test if the 4MB buffer is available for use?
What program is on disk1 that requires more than 1M free RAM?
I tried free df du ls less.

1.55MB used by three sh's and three tops and miscellany.
With 4MB used by ram0, 7MB total, the ramdisk could not be using 2.5MB 
now.

This 486 (DX?) 25 is really speedy compared to the 386-SX20/387, even with 
less usable (not ramdisk) RAM.

A 1-floppy BL3 could have 2 instead of 3 virtual terminals to save maybe 
200K of RAM.