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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Quest: Linux on 386 - 1Mb ???
- Keywords: Is it possible?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.130832.10668@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 13:08:32 GMT
- References: <1992Sep10.103728.25485@cs.ruu.nl>
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- Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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- In article <1992Sep10.103728.25485@cs.ruu.nl>, rhtenbac@cs.ruu.nl (Robert Tenback) writes:
- | I recently downloaded Linux but it doesn't work on my
- | computer because I have only 1Mb memory. So here is my
- | question:
- |
- | Is it possible to try Linux on a 386, with only 1 Mb memory ?
- |
- | (By forcing Linux to use fewer buffers, or something like that.)
-
- I'll mail you a copy of this, but the answer I give you is "only in
- theory." Linux requires some memory above 1MB, but if you had one of
- those systems which puts 640k low and 385k as the start of extended
- memory, it *might* work. If all the memory is below 1MB it won't. And I
- don't think it will work with less than 640k low memory, either.
-
- What kind of system do you have that you can't expand the memory? I'm
- sure someone will *give* you some 256k SIMMs, most big companies are
- literally throwing them away to install current memory. If you can
- afford the disks to boot Linux I assume you could afford $29 for 1MB
- more memory.
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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