From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263413AbTDINuY (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 09:50:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263418AbTDINuY (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 09:50:24 -0400 Received: from WARSL401PIP6.highway.telekom.at ([195.3.96.93]:25647 "HELO email03.aon.at") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263413AbTDINuX (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 09:50:23 -0400 From: Hermann Himmelbauer To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Linux-2.4.20 on a 4 MB Laptop Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:01:55 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304091601.55821.dusty@violin.dyndns.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I currently try installing Linux on an old IBM Laptop. (IBM Thinkpad 340, 486SLC 25/50 from 1994). The laptop only has 4 MB RAM, so I installed a simple Linux distribution on a better computer, recompiled Linux 2.4.20 and stripped out everything I could (with menuconfig): No networking. FPU emulation. The only "luxury" I left is "ext3" - perhaps this uses a lot of memory? Well - anyway, the kernel boots but right stops after: INIT: Entering runlevel:3 The next line is: INIT: open(/dev/console): Input/output error INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes ... That's it. What I want to know is if this happens just because of the low memory (4MB) or if there is another reason for this behaviour. What do you think: What are the minimum requirements for Linux on such a laptop (no X, of course, very simple setup): 8MB, 12MB? Best Regards, Hermann -- x1@aon.at GPG key ID: 299893C7 (on keyservers) FP: 0124 2584 8809 EF2A DBF9 4902 64B4 D16B 2998 93C7