FC on old PC

Martin Marques martin at bugs.unl.edu.ar
Sat Nov 8 14:13:28 UTC 2003


El Sáb 08 Nov 2003 10:37, Konrad Kosmowski escribió:
> On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Martin Marques wrote:
> > Is it posible to get FC1 to install on a PC with a 486 processor and 8MB
> > of RAM?
>
> No - text based instalator (smaller one) needs 32 megs of RAM to run.
> But even if it would run on 8MB i won't probably work - 486 is a VERY
> old computer, it cannot run modern distributions or programs, try
> installing some old Slackware or Red Hat (probably 6.2) but I don't know

It has 6.0 and I couldn't upgrade to 6.1 even

> if it will work, for sure you need oldish kernel (2.2) an libc instead
> of glibc, maybe XFree86 3.x if you need to run X but it probabli wont
> go. FreeBSD would work as an client (textbased terminal, or simple X
> terminal) on such hardware.

kernel 2.4 will work OK on one of those. The problem is the RH (and now FC) 
intaller that needs so much memory! :-(

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