Huh... Which version of debian did that requirement come in? I don't think it was there in etch. My laptop is running lenny but I may have installed etch and then did a dist-upgrade to lenny. I'm kind of shocked that you need 128 Mb. Debian still has 486 kernel packages. In fact, last fall, I got a bug fixed for a driver for a chipset that has been obsolete for about 10 years. Those things aren't directly debian related but the linux community generally has outstanding support for old hardware. Well, I suppose you can always do the install step by step yourself. Maybe thats why debian figured it was no big deal to have a 128 Mb requirement for their installer. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Baechler" <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 4:52 AM Subject: Re: an observation, and question > As Debian has officially stated, you must have a minimum of 128 MB of RAM > to do an install. Debian itself might run on less after installation. > Yes, I realize this is a late reply, but the statement that you can only > install Slackware isn't true, provided you have at least 128 MB of memory. > You could also set up a virtual machine to do the install and somehow use > dd to copy the raw virtual image to the Pentium hard drive. You could > also try an older version of Debian and upgrade. > > On 4/6/2010 12:49 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: >> A couple of days ago, I grabbed the debian stable netinst cd-rom image, >> and attempted to install debian on to a machine using that image. The >> machine is old, a Pentium running at 133 MHz, with 64 megs of ram, >> with no dvd drive, just a cd-rom drive. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
