Re: [edlug] Thursday? Holyrood?

[JC <jc123@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Hi Anand,

I have to say IPCop installed just fine for me on the 486. Its got (goes
up to loft to dig it out) 64Mb RAM - a veritable monster for its day.
Unfortunately I don't know how to remove modules from the kernel
so I can't help you there. If you stay in Edinburgh area your welcome to it.
Its currently missing a hard disk and any network cards, but Im sure I've
got some of those hanging about as well in the loft. Thank goodness for the
loft.

Cheers,
John.



Catriona & Anand wrote:

Thanks. I tried activating swap (this was using IPCop) but it made no 
difference. My own contribution to feature creep would have been the option 
to use the existing partitions, including swap, and have the chance to tell 
the installer which kernel modules were necessary. It seems to load modules 
for all the network cards it knows, rather than just the one you have.

Anyway, I have decided to start from the other end, with a pentium machine 
with enough RAM and work my way down to 486s

Anand

On Monday 10 May 2004 15:45, Craig Perry wrote:
  

I remember a while back (circa redhat 7.x i think) the redhat installer
had near enough double the requirements of memory as the standard redhat
base system it was installing, there was a project back then that aimed
to make the installer less resource hungry, so it could be possible...

Removing modules from the kernel would limit memory usage, but only by a
very small (as in not really worthwhile) amount. Anyway the idea of a
modular kernel is not to load the modules you dont need so there
probably wont be much you could trim out of it, because only the stuff
you need has been loaded.

As your talking about installing, i'm assuming the system has a hard
drive. Would it not be possible to use a swap partition during the install?

    swapon /dev/hda2 or whatever

I appreciate the HD will probably be in the region of 100-500Mb but even
that should be 'do-able'.

HTH

Regards,
Craig
    

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