I was able to boot the minimal i386 in virtualbox with 175mb ram, but not
with 170 or less.

I'm a little surprised that it wants all that. Back in the days of Squeeze,
I was able to boot an older version of Refracta (with e17, put together by
meandean) and whatever version of Antix was current then with only 64mb ram
on hardware. Has the initrd grown that much since then?


On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 7:32 AM, David Hare <davidahare@???> wrote:

> I look forward to your findings on initrd and RAM. Another point of
> interest, I repacked again with the uefi files (4MB) generated by the
> script I posted yesterday. It boots efi-mode in qemu
> (/sys/firmware/efi is present)
>
> D
>
> On 14 May 2016 at 12:05, KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 11:45:31AM +0100, David Hare wrote:
> >> KatolaZ, you may be interested to know, I repacked your iso to 199MB
> >> (with no actual system modifications) by using xz compression for the
> >> squashfs and initrd. The result booted fine in qemu. The extra
> >> decompression time is only a few seconds.
> >>
> >
> > Thanks David,
> >
> > this was something I had in the todolist, and is great to know that it
> > squeezes things so much. I am going to implement it for the next
> > release. Unfortunately, this will not solve the problem with RAM
> > requirement due to initrd, but I might have news on that front later
> > on today :)
> >
> > HND
> >
> > KatolaZ
> >
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