Unless you DD a rebuilt image, the installer needs a bit more than 128MB- however, the OS itself manages to barely fit into 64MB.

root@superteeny:/# free -h
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            64M       35.2M          1M         48K         57M         25M
Swap:            0B          0B          0B
root@superteeny:/# cat /etc/debian_version 
9.0

It’s tight, but workable. It’ll work quite a bit better with swap (or RAM, really). I just did this to show that it is possible.

I also ran it with a manual upgrade from Wheezy on an OpenVZ container, and it worked swimmingly well. I wouldn’t suggest it, but it is possible.

This is Washingtons’ Mt. Rainier as seen from the isle seat in a small 727. Pretty cool with the cloud coverage, huh?

I was saddened to hear of the passing of Keith Robinson.

I had spoken to him over the internet, but sadly, never in person. His kind nature and enthusiasm helped to bring Intellivision to several generations.

You will be missed.

On Saturday, I sadly bid adieu to my grandmother. Although I have accepted the reality of it- I still want to call her at least once a week, as it’s been so long since I heard from her (She passed in December, but we put off her final rites so all family might attend, even though they were unable.)

She’d have enjoyed the trip up- the stay was memorable- it reminded me of times staying in her quite rural cabin in Fox, Montana- it didn’t even have indoor plumbing- in the late 80s. She sold that and gave the proceeds to my uncle decades ago.

This is the first time I stayed in this specific cabin at Jolley Camper- it had two overhead fans, a working heater (just don’t run that and the TV or microwave at the same time), and a half-sized hot water heater- which ought to be enough for anyone. Talk about spoiled!

Back home, I’ve got a lot of real life to catch up on. I’m officially dropping my ideology of posting something every (other) day, because I’m already faltering, and often have nothing that I consider worthy of sharing with the world.

Even though I’ve forced myself to “stay thin”, to support my aging hardware, I just can’t survive in 60 (55) gigs, even if it is on an EFI based multi-core system.

A fully-functional light distribution with browser, git, gcc, and all other build tools just can’t survive when you get into working on large distributables.

I’ve got two incompatible LEDE/OpenWRT trees, my own local src-packages, and that doesn’t even involve my own native code (which can fit in a couple megs these days), or the standard glibc and linux headers- I won’t even mention crosscompiling into musl targets.

I give up- SSDs and Core2s just can’t get me by. Eventually I’ll have to buy something newer- but until then, a 320GB 7200RPM SATA will have to do, even if it takes 100x as long.