[ltp] a bit OT: Linux for a 386/2MB machine?

Christopher Sawtell linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 06 May 2005 10:38:51 +1200


On Fri, 06 May 2005 06:21, jeff wrote:
> On Thursday 05 May 2005 12:21, Andr=E9 Wyrwa wrote:
> > Hei,
> >
> > i coincidentially got an old Highscreen 386 notebook into my hands, very
> > cute. Trouble is it only has 2MB of mem and most of the one disk linux
> > distros require at least 4MB.
> >
> > Is anyone having recommendation for a distro i could try with 2MB?
> >
> > Did anone ever try ELKS?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andr=E9.
>=20
> Google for low memory Linux installation:
> http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/lowmem.html
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/4mb-Laptops.html
> http://www.superant.com/smalllinux/howto.html
To which I'd like to add:

http://omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~giannone/rescue/current/index.orig.html

in my exp. this is a very good rescue low memory diskette distribution.

=2D-
C. S.