>> While sysinst is documented to work with 6 MB of memory, and the
>> machine has 8MB, the installation would crash with gzip running out of
>> memory when installing sets.  The solution was to escape to the shell
>> and swapon manually.  I guess that sysinst should do that automa-
>> tically, or at least the procedure should be documented.

FB> That sounds like a good idea, updating the documentation. The swap
FB> thing can't work unless you already have swap partition configured,
FB> so that sounds difficult to automate.

Actually, the partitions are already configured at that point, and the
new root is mounted on /mnt2.  It's a simple matter of doing swapon
when you mount root.

FB> Please file a problem report.

Will do, thanks for the suggestion.

>> While I have your ear, do people have any ideas how to make the kernel
>> smaller?  It's currently at slightly over 1.2 MB, but there's a mere
>> 5.5 MB free after booting.

FB> That's good that it boots to a prompt! [...]  Running the
FB> compiler, for one, is pretty much out of the question.

Surprisingly enough, that's not the case.  gcc -O hello.c does swap a
little, but it only takes 10 seconds.

I've compiled 19500 lines of C (-O) in a mere 15 minutes, and the
machine was responsive enough to read man pages at the same time.
Reminds me of the Sparc SLC that used to live on my desk ;-)

Thanks a lot,

                                        Juliusz