RE: older debian release?

[Laurent PICOULEAU <5632937@a2points.com>]

Hi, 

> hi, i've got what may seem a strange request.. i'm looking for an older
> release of debian. i have a laptop w/ only 2MB RAM and i've been told that
> one of the older releases of debian will run under 2MB.

Bo can run in 2 MB RAM. You'll have to use the lmemboot floppy and to 
compile a kernel with make zImage (bzImage ones need 4 MB). Count 
about 20 hours to complete the installation of the base system. 

After the install, use ash instead of bash it's much much less greedy in RAM.




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