FC2 devel/i386 vs VIA EPIA boards

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Mon Jan 19 19:21:11 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 18:57, Toshio wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 13:39, Dave Jones wrote:
> > The fact that most of the boards that run < 686 cpus won't
> > hold enough ram to run FC is probably one strong reason to
> > not bother with an i386/i486 kernel.
> 
> Actually, FC will probably _run_ on minimal RAM as well.  I have a 486
> with 8MB of RAM running RH9.  I had to do all sorts of crazy stuff to
> get it installed, but running it hasn't given me any troubles.

Anaconda needs way more ram than that. If you're going to do things by
hand, sure you can get around it. The sane alternative for low ram/low
end cpu boxes is probably the dedicated project that was mentioned here
a few months back (who's name escapes me)

	Dave





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