very common kernel modules slow down the boot process

[Konrad Meyer]

Quoth Jonathan Underwood:
> On 07/04/2008, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> 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.
> 
> 
> There used to be a project whose aim was to install Fedora on low
> memory machines - the approach was to use a different installer. For
> the life of me I can't remember or find the name of that project
> though.

RULE / Slinky. http://rule-project.org/

Regards,
-- 
Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>
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