an observation, and question

[John G. Heim]

Huh...   Which version of debian did that requirement come in? I don't think 
it was there in etch.  My laptop is running lenny but I may have installed 
etch and then did a dist-upgrade to lenny.

I'm kind of shocked that you need 128 Mb. Debian still has 486 kernel 
packages. In fact, last fall, I got a bug fixed for a driver for a chipset 
that has been obsolete  for about 10 years. Those things aren't directly 
debian related but the linux community generally has outstanding support for 
old hardware.

Well, I suppose you can always do the install step by step yourself.  Maybe 
thats why debian figured it was no big deal to have a 128 Mb requirement for 
their installer.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 4:52 AM
Subject: Re: an observation, and question


> As Debian has officially stated, you must have a minimum of 128 MB of RAM 
> to do an install.  Debian itself might run on less after installation. 
> Yes, I realize this is a late reply, but the statement that you can only 
> install Slackware isn't true, provided you have at least 128 MB of memory. 
> You could also set up a virtual machine to do the install and somehow use 
> dd to copy the raw virtual image to the Pentium hard drive.  You could 
> also try an older version of Debian and upgrade.
>
> On 4/6/2010 12:49 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote:
>> A couple of days ago, I grabbed the debian stable netinst cd-rom image,
>> and attempted to install debian on to a machine using that image. The
>> machine is old, a Pentium running at 133 MHz, with 64 megs of ram,
>> with no dvd drive, just a cd-rom drive.
>>
>
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