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You need 12 MB RAM for the floppy version, 3 MB if you boot it from DOS.

Meyer

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:31 PM,  <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
> Hello all,
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> I just acquired an IBM ThinkPad with only
> 8 MB of RAM. Amazingly, it's already running
> Windows 95! (hard to believe)
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> But when i tried to boot BL off the floppies,
> only a few commands would work. I was able to
> use free, df, pwd, and cd ... but ls and fdisk
> would not work. Even "halt" was a problem.
> free showed that there was only 120 KB of
> memory left after BL loaded.
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> But df also showed that there was not only a
> /dev/ram0 mounted on /, but also a /dev/ram1
> mounted on /usr/X11R6. So is there a boot
> option to boot BL without any X-windows stuff
> right from the start, to conserve memory? If
> i can get the shell running OK on this machine
> i'd be happy.
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> The hard-drive is 500 MB, but is almost filled
> up with Windows 95 and its files. I plan to
> delete whatever i can ASAP. So if i can get
> BL's fdisk working, i can set up a swap
> partition and things will work much better.
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> -monz
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