From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 10:28:10 CET
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 04:58:47PM -0800, Bob Romprey nicely wrote:
>
> Better forget trying to run muLinux on a 2 MEG machine :(
> I've got a pile of old GRiD 1755 notebooks with 2 Megs\80 Meg hdd, and have been able to successfully install and run "small linux" on them, but not without MUCH software butchery............muLinux just wouldn't even think of running.
>
In muLinux, the big problem is the bzip2 compressor: maybe the design is
not perfect. It take mega and mega of RAM when uncompress.
One way to solve the problem, should be to introduce a new model (mu -i),
with two floppy, boot simply gzipped.
Michele
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