Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Devil Linux on minimal-hardware system

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

On Sun, January 6, 2008 19:32, Travis B wrote:
> Hello there DL members,
>
>
> For a long time I've scouted Devil Linux as a distribution to
> use at some point in my future.  Well, now is the time, but now also got me
>  stuck =/.  From a few friends I received a nice intel PRO [dual processor
> --not dual core] motherboard.  It's loaded with 88MB of memory
> [thank you memtest86], a 4port-ethernet bridge, and has a 2GB hard drive
> in it [I want to put the DSL install on this as I don't want to have to
> have my CD drive plugged into this device as I have very few extra CDROM
> drives]-- I'm also planning on throwing a 500GB in there and have DL also
> be a nice NFS mount for me, but that's not important at the moment.
>
> The DL liveCD wants to load into memory, however I only have
> 88MB, and
> not 220+ of RAM to be ABLE to load it [and yes, I'm maxed out or close to
> it, the slots are full and I'm sure this board can't handle more than
> 128].  What should I really do to be able to do this?  Send it over PXE?
> I'd hate to have to do that every single time I turn the router on
> [especially since it'd be the one handling the connection...].  I'm at
> loss with this, any help would be great.  Thanks!

DL doesn't load the content into RAM, it runs mostly of the CD or whatever
device you have it on. The minimum RAM is 32MB, 64MB should already get
you quite some ways (the more the better of course).

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org