Comments on: Installing to a machine with 64MB RAM http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/installing-to-a-machine-with-64mb-ram/ My thoughts on Slackware, life and everything Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:34:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dino http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/installing-to-a-machine-with-64mb-ram/#comment-15623 Dino Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:30:03 +0000 http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/?p=92#comment-15623 Hello Eric, I have asked on freenode #slackware how to handle initrd.img. I have laptop Toshiba 4090 XCDT with unmodified specifications. It has a great Mendocino Celeron CPU on 400 MHz, 64 MB RAM and only 2 GB of HDD which is also very slow. So I found two of solutions: 1. Making old initrd smaller by deleting one module tree in lib/modules/2.xx.x-smp and repacking then replacing the old initrd.img in /isolinux on USB stick. # unpack old initrd image: first unzip, then extract with cpio mkdir oldinitrd cd oldinitrd cp cdcontents/isolinux/initrd.img initrd.img.gz gunzip initrd.img.gz cpio -i --make-directories ../newinitrd.img cd .. gzip -9 newinitrd.img mv newinitrd.img.gz cdcontents/isolinux/initrd.img 2. In case above method does not work then just copy over initrd.img from Slackware 11.0 (2.6MB). Slackware 12.2 and 11.0 uses the same package system, and ends in .tgz For Slackware 13.0 use method #1 because #2 won't work due to .txz packages that older versions wouldn't recognize (message: package doesn't end in .tgz, but you will not be able to see it in setup, and setup will finish too quick, so something must have gone wrong). Hope this will help someone. Greetings, Dino. Hello Eric,

I have asked on freenode #slackware how to handle initrd.img. I have laptop Toshiba 4090 XCDT with unmodified specifications. It has a great Mendocino Celeron CPU on 400 MHz, 64 MB RAM and only 2 GB of HDD which is also very slow. So I found two of solutions:
1. Making old initrd smaller by deleting one module tree in lib/modules/2.xx.x-smp and repacking then replacing the old initrd.img in /isolinux on USB stick.
# unpack old initrd image: first unzip, then extract with cpio
mkdir oldinitrd
cd oldinitrd
cp cdcontents/isolinux/initrd.img initrd.img.gz
gunzip initrd.img.gz
cpio -i –make-directories ../newinitrd.img
cd ..
gzip -9 newinitrd.img
mv newinitrd.img.gz cdcontents/isolinux/initrd.img
2. In case above method does not work then just copy over initrd.img from Slackware 11.0 (2.6MB). Slackware 12.2 and 11.0 uses the same package system, and ends in .tgz
For Slackware 13.0 use method #1 because #2 won’t work due to .txz packages that older versions wouldn’t recognize (message: package doesn’t end in .tgz, but you will not be able to see it in setup, and setup will finish too quick, so something must have gone wrong). Hope this will help someone.
Greetings,
Dino.

]]> By: Slackware 13.1 installation huge.s stops at kernel_thread_helper http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/installing-to-a-machine-with-64mb-ram/#comment-14165 Slackware 13.1 installation huge.s stops at kernel_thread_helper Sat, 16 Apr 2011 21:08:36 +0000 http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/?p=92#comment-14165 [...] (Mobile Pentium 3, 64MB). I think the problem is, taht you don't have enough ram. Read this: http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/inst...with-64mb-ram/ Download the slackware-12.2-mini-install.iso and see if it boots. If it does you can try replacing [...] [...] (Mobile Pentium 3, 64MB). I think the problem is, taht you don't have enough ram. Read this: http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/inst…with-64mb-ram/ Download the slackware-12.2-mini-install.iso and see if it boots. If it does you can try replacing [...]

]]> By: bambus http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/installing-to-a-machine-with-64mb-ram/#comment-4353 bambus Sun, 31 May 2009 11:52:02 +0000 http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/?p=92#comment-4353 second method with replacing initrd.img in iso image doesn't works on pentium 200mhz, 64mb ram second method with replacing initrd.img in iso image doesn’t works on pentium 200mhz, 64mb ram

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