Maintenance Linux on a stick

[Raziel]

Hi Linux gods,

i'd like to be able to do a "real" memory test on my installed 4GB (X1000) due to my system having problems and crashes of ramlib.support lately when going over 75% of the used 2 GB in AmigaOS (I'm trying to corner that problem to hardware-wise - memory sticks - or software-wise - should be addressed in the OS).
e.g. the "memtester" program from OS4Depot.net (yet overall not really trustworthy i was told), is smart enough to only address that much memory that is actually available...doing a fast test i tried to address 1.5GB - where 400 MB were in use by the OS - and it counted down to 853 MB, which it finally used - leaving me with 66% of used memory, while i don't know why it can't address the rest.
Not to mention that i got that dreaded ramlib.support crash on quitting memtester

Now, i do know nothing of Linux on Amiga and frankly, i don't want to read up all the tech talk either

If someone could provide me a step to step guide on where to download and how to set up a minimalistic linux on an usb stick (it should not really do more than test the memory actually - i don't want it to be installed or tamper with my partitions) i'd be most grateful.

Thanks a lot

[papaoskar]

Why should it be a stick? Just use the DVD from Amigakit with Ubuntu12.04 !
It is definitly slow and the stick is'nt much faster.

[Raziel]

Why should it be a stick? Just use the DVD from Amigakit with Ubuntu12.04 !
It is definitly slow and the stick is'nt much faster.

Download link?

[xeno74]

Why should it be a stick? Just use the DVD from Amigakit with Ubuntu12.04 !
It is definitly slow and the stick is'nt much faster.

Download link?

I could add memtester to the SliTaz initrd.gz if you like.

[Raziel]

Why should it be a stick? Just use the DVD from Amigakit with Ubuntu12.04 !
It is definitly slow and the stick is'nt much faster.

Download link?

I could add memtester to the SliTaz initrd.gz if you like.

If you could add a guide on how to make it run, that would be marvellous, thank you

[davebraco]

@ Raziel

It seems to be problem similar to this one :
http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz ... =33&t=1709

[Raziel]

@davebraco

Thanks a lot for that hint, completely missed the thread

So, here's hoping for a fix in FE

[xeno74]

@davebraco

Thanks a lot for that hint, completely missed the thread

So, here's hoping for a fix in FE

Do you still need a SliTaz with the memtester?

[Raziel]

@davebraco

Thanks a lot for that hint, completely missed the thread

So, here's hoping for a fix in FE

Do you still need a SliTaz with the memtester?

Only if it won't mean extra work for you.
If you were doing it anyway then i'd be glad to test (wanted to run a memtest over the whole 4 GB anyway some time), but if you are going to spend time on it you could spend on other things, then please don't waste it

Thank you very much for the offer, though