Re: Bare Minimum Memory

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	Thank you very much. That did answer all my questions
pretty much the way I imagined. I am still not sure whether
there aren't more basic problems afoot. The system doesn't even
come close to booting up. One thing I did do is place a radio
near enough to the system to hear the noises one gets when
booting. There are whishing sounds and pops all the way from
start to the spoken login prompt. When I try the drive with
wheezy, there is a brief normal-sounding burst and then that
sickening virtual silence of nothing happening at all like it
isn't even expanding the kernel.
	How I did this was to put the boot drive on a working
system and format it with fdisk, making partition 1 the primary
partition. I did set the boot flag which brings me to a
question. Does setting the boot flag with fdisk put a MBR on the
disk? This gave me a blank bootable disk on to which I used
rsync to copy the wheezy distribution from a working system to
the new disk.
	I am not sure if the MBR I am putting on the new disk is
any good. Any MBR setting command that automates this process is
probably better than what I am doing with dd.

Martin
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