Re: [Rule-list] Joining group

[Martin Stricker]

"Rodolfo J. Paiz" wrote:

> However, it occurs to me that I can simply hammer at this thing with
> miniconda *until* it works, relaying feedback to Devon et al. of
> what breaks each time. Maybe? Or is there a better idea?

Sounds like a good but painful way... Finding out what might break in
extreme situations is always a Good Thing (TM).

> I'll also continue to look for another machine with 16MB of RAM and a
> bigger disk so that I can do more testing. However, in this part of
> the world those are still considered useful by some (sigh) so it's
> harder to get my greedy little hands on one. All of *my* machines are
> P166 or better with 64MB of RAM or better.

You can slim it down at least for memory with
linux mem=XM
at the boot prompt, where X is the number of MB of RAM you want the
kernel to be restricted to. I'm doing this on my P166MMX, too.

Best regards,
Martin Stricker
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