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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Ondra Tomecka <otom7630 AT lucy.troja.mff.cuni.cz>:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Have anyone ever tried to install SMGL on something like P75, 4M RAM, 640M
> HDD? My mom got such computer and wants me to create web browser and mp3
> player from it ;-)
>
> I managed to install RH5.1 on it, but it doesn't boot from RH6.x or higher
> CD, as well as it doesn't boot from SMGL ISO from 20040414. Most probably
> because all those newer ISOs try to create a ramdisk too big to fit in
> memory :( I'm going to try to install SMGL over that RH5.1 when I get home
> from work, but I'm not sure I understood instructions for chroot
> installation correctly. I'll see in the evening.
>
> In the meantime I would appreciate any tips for such low-memory 
> configuration
> ;-)
>
> And before anyone suggests that installation wouldn't be possible with
> such small disk, I'm going to use samba share for that ;-)

I've successfully put SMGL on a P133, 64Mb, but with a 2Gb HDD and /home and
/var/spool/sorcery mounted via NFS (I also turned off ARCHIVE, CCACHE, and
GATHER_DOCS and enabled strip and tiny compilation options).

Did you try passing the "lowres" (IIRC) option to the ISO boot so that it
doesn't use the framebuffer?

-sandalle

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