Re: Minimum RAM for ELKS?

[Dave Mills <dave@webshed.org>]

Tom McCabe wrote:
> 
> --- Vikas Kumar <walburn@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hey Dave
>> Use Bochs emulator. Set the RAM to how much ever
>> your target machine
>> has, and use an elks image and see if it works.  iF
>> it works on this
>> setting, it should work on your target hardware as
>> well.
>>
>> Vikas
> 
> I remember there being an option in the ELKS
> configuration about how many 64 KB memory pages were
> necessary, and the minimum was 4 (256 KB). Also, I've
> noticed that even on a modern system with the full 640
> KB possible, the ash and rc shells don't run (if sash
> isn't linked to /bin/sh, it crashes on bootup).

Thanks Vikas & Tom.  I'll give the bochs idea a try. I'm really just
trying to get the smallest kernel running that I can.

cheers,
Dave