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sindi wrote:

> I have run BL3 on such a laptop with 3MB or 5MB RAM (very slowly, no 
> graphics), but not from floppy disk.

It's not exactly true :) I ran qemu 0.7.2 with RAM of emulated computer
set to 3MB.

Harddisk version. Unzipped bl3-40.zip to c:\baslin.
Unzipped swap.zip (6MB swap file) in c:\baslin

boot.bat

Before `startx`, `free` reports:

        total  used  free  shared  buffers
  Mem:   1684  1540   144     392      376
 Swap:   6717    12  6704
Total:   8400  1552  6848


After `startx` and running xterm from menu, `free` reports:

        total  used  free  shared  buffers
  Mem:   1684  1544   140     208      344
 Swap:   6717  1024  5692
Total:   8400  2568  5832

and X runs on 3MB systems with some swap.
Well, on 3MB systems it runs very slooooooooow.
Really very slow. I tested also 4MB RAM and it runs much faster.

For sure, Jose can run harddisk version of BL 3.x on his laptop.
But definitely not floppy version as he has only 5MB RAM and
floppy disk version requires 12MB ram (ramdisk is created during startup).


Chris

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