very common kernel modules slow down the boot process

[Karel Zak]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 04:36:06PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 19:48 +0000, =?ISO-8859-1?Q? J=F3hann_B._Gu=F0mundsson _ wrote:
> > So exactly what, of Alan suggestions are not necessary for a 128MB ( low 
> > men machine )
> > And how do you come to the conclusion that he's throwing hate at fedora?
> 
> First, the post was about less than 512, and my ps3 certainly has less
> (256).  A network install using rescue.img (renamed to netinst.iso or
> boot.iso partway through the F9 development process) and nfs or http
> works fine for me.  I may have to do text or vnc installs, I don't
> recall.  Also selecting fewer packages helps, but you want fewer
> packages anyway.  For 128 it may get harder, I haven't tried that small
> in a while, but that's a far cry from < 512.

 I have a Fedora 7 on ThinkPad E600 with 190Mb of RAM and it's useful
 for fluxbox+mutt+vim. For installation you have to use a kickstart
 with "%packages --nobase".

    Karel

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 Karel Zak  <kzak at redhat.com>