From: root@umibox.hanse.de (Bernd Meyer) Subject: Re: linux on a 2MB machine Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1993 16:34:02 GMT
iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes:
>In article <1993Jun22.225509.8488@umibox.hanse.de> root@umibox.hanse.de (Bernd Meyer) writes:
>>Hi,
>>b) Normal (uncompresssed!) kernel images do boot, though it wasn't that easy
>>to compile one that had math support in, tcp/ip in and was still under 640k.
>>If it gets bigger - bad luck, won't even be created.
>I've had no real problem with this, for a 2Mb machine build a kernel with
>only one file system (MinixFS or xiaFS are small), no tcp/ip unless you
>really really need it - tcp/ip is large, no scsi - scsi adds a lot, and
>you should be looking at a kernel under 250K. For a while I ran 0.99.5
>on a 1Mb machine, with everything stripped down and smaller page tables.
>It was handy for playing rogue....
Maybe, but since I wanted to use the 2MB machine to test SLIP, I had to have
tcp/ip in. And ext2fs (because I don't use any other)... And so it got
bigger and bigger......
Bernie