Install on 32 meg celeron machine
Daniel Robitaille
fedora at robitaille.fastmail.fm
Sat Dec 27 03:24:59 UTC 2003
of course, a default redhat/fedora on a 32megs machine will be extremely
slow and swap a lot to disk. http://www.rule-project.org/en/index.php
seems to be working on a workable redhat/fedora version for low memory
systems and probabyla good place to start for advice.
Daniel
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 18:27:50 -0800, "Daniel Robitaille"
<fedora at robitaille.fastmail.fm> said:
>
> 32 megs? What kind of www browser was used with nt4 machine? Under
> linux, I'm guessing it could be possible in theory with a light window
> manager (like fvwm), and a graphical browser with a very small memory
> footprint. Sadly I think that rules out any modern mozilla, firebird,
> opera. etc. Maybe netscape4? Or go the text-based route with elinks?
>
>
> On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 20:48:40 -0500, "mwafkowski"
> <mwafkowski at osheaven.net> said:
> > With a graphical browser? No!
> >
> > MRW
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steve Watford" <stevew at aui.com>
> > To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 5:39 PM
> > Subject: Install on 32 meg celeron machine
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I have a 300 MHz Celeron machine with 32 meg of memory. Is fedora
> > possible on
> > > this machine. I get an anaconda exit abnormally error when I try to
> > install
> > > from CD. I realize 64 is the stated min, but is there a way around it,
> > > possibly with a switch setting or different install type.(http?) I have 5
> > of
> > > these machines in our office that are running NT40 just fine and since
> > they
> > > are basically used to run a browser and hit an apache server I would
> > prefer
> > > not to have to upgrade them all.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > >
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