Install on 32 meg celeron machine

Steve Watford stevew at aui.com
Sat Dec 27 13:38:23 UTC 2003


I'll check out this site.
Thanks


Quoting Daniel Robitaille <fedora at robitaille.fastmail.fm>:

> 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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