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From: Tom Newton on 1 Feb 2008 13:56
On 2008-02-01, Shadow <sh(a)dow> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:04:06 +0000 (UTC), Tom Newton
><tom(a)server.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>>I'm running 12.0 here, with X up, a window manager with 9 full
>>screen windows. Firefox, slrn and mutt and two invocations of vi,
>>one of less, as well as scripts running repetitions in several of
>>those windows, and dhcpcd and a packet logger on eth0.
>>
>>I'm using 47M of RAM.
> Your operating system and all programs are also mounted in
> that 47 Mb of ram ? If so I am very interested.
> Remember, this is a complete system using ram as a HD, no swap
> at all ....

Which, as you have been informed already, is not the way to go about
doing this.

Tom

From: Tom Newton on 1 Feb 2008 14:50
On 2008-02-01, Shadow <sh(a)dow> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 05:56:52 +0300, Mikhail Zotov
><invalid_muxaul(a)lenta.ru> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:15:21 -0200
>>Shadow <sh(a)dow> wrote:
>>> So I'm wondering, would it be possible to install a minimum slackware
>>> to a disk, compile and add my ethernet and wireless drivers as
>>> modules, (using checkinstall), and then burn the whole to a live cd ?
>>
>>As far as I can see, a live CD takes more time to boot than a `real'
>>installation. It is also much less responsive. I second +Alan Hicks+
>>that a 2.4 kernel might be a better choice than a 2.6 one. You may want
>>to try DSL <http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/> to check how it works.
>>One more thing to try is to recompile the kernel stripping out everything
>>it doesn't need. Besides this, "cleaning" scripts in /etc/rc.d by
>>commenting all checks that make no sense for your installation, can
>>save a few seconds more.
> What I did, and is how I got it from 60Mb to 54 Mb big, in
> ram. I can probably cut out some more. But you must agree that to work
> UP is probably more efficient than working DOWN

I read here a while back that there are instructions for installing slaxon the harddrive on their website.

That would be the thing to do.

Tom

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