Reducing Fedora memory footprint?

[John Reiser]

> In my experience, the biggest problem with Fedora on low-memory systems is 
> getting it installed.

The RULE Project (Run Up2date Linux Everywhere) has an installer "slinky"
http://www.fzk.at/SLINKY/  that can install Fedora Core 5 in 32MB RAM.
I did it in 64MB on a PentiumMMX-166 in about 3.5 hours.  Starting OpenOffice
took two minutes, but typing and mousing was fine.

On a network, then a "reverse NFS install" can be used.  Boot the target
machine using a rescue CD or DVD, partition+format+mount the disk,
start NFS and export the target root filesystem.  From another machine
on the network, run rpm using "--dbpath DIRECTORY" and "--root DIRECTORY"
to re-direct those places to the target machine.  You might also need
to use --ignorearch.  After installing kernel, glibc, grub, and yum
(use "--aid" to fill in the dependencies), then you'll have enough to boot
the target machine by itself, and finish installation using yum and
system-config-*.

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