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how to install tinycore into a RAM 32mb PC?
vinnie:
I do not know if this boot code serves this purpose
tinycore nozswap Skip compressed swap in ram
hiro:
no.
better get these other 32mb
gerald_clark:
The embed boot option will stop copying initrd to tmpfs.
This may help lower the minimum RAM needed.
But what are you going to use to run programs?
Michael Wells:
Another thought ... I have never used TC fully installed on a hard disk ... but can anybody who has, tell me if this reduces the RAM requirements by not having everything loaded into RAM ... or is there another reason to explain the 48Mb minimum such as an X configuration setting? Or maybe - is it because the Initram filesystem loaded at boot takes a minimum of 48Mb regardless of the install method?
Another way of asking this question is to ask - What is the reason DSL gets it down to 16Mb RAM for X?
tinypoodle:
--- Quote from: Michael Wells on March 01, 2011, 05:08:05 AM ---I wonder if a Knoppix trick of creating a virtual memory file on an available hard drive would enable TC to run on smaller hardware setups albeit more slowly?
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What you call a "Knoppix trick" is standard procedure in many OS's (and some would force swap on you by default upon install). And it is referred to under "minimal requirements".
In tc there is a tool for it:
--- Code: ---swapfile
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