Installing on 40 meg RAM in an old Laptop.

STrRedWolf · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2002 Posts: 72

Now I have the most intresting install probably ever known to human kind.

Toshiba Satellite 115CS laptop.
40 megs of RAM (that's it! Can't go any further!)
800 meg HD.
One PCMCIA NIC, supported by Kernel 2.4.18.

Here's my idea: I mount the ISO onto /alt/gentoo, mount the rescue disk to /alt/gentoo.rescue, point the NFS server to server them, and compile up a special kernel that has those drivers. Have it boot with an NFS-mounted root being the rescue disk, so it's not kept in a ramdisk.

Opinions? I need to know Gentoo's kernel config, though, before I take on this deed for science.

rommel · Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2002 6:00 am Post subject:

i dont think thats enough ram...i thought i had read somewhere that a minimum of 64megs was needed, but i could be mistaken

delta407 · Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2002 3:42 pm Post subject:

Not so. I installed Gentoo onto a Pentium 133 with 24 MB of RAM. Check out this thread.

If you need more details, let me know, we can arrange something.

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STrRedWolf · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2002 Posts: 72

Recommended was 64, and they said it would build slowly.

Turns out that they generate a 40 meg Ramdisk for the rescue disk. Building slowly I don't mind, but having it NFS mounted instead of on the Ramdisk may build it faster (restricting IO to the network).