trying to revive an old pc

[Matt Morgan]

On 08/11/2004 10:20 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:

>Craig wrote:
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>>Kent Emia wrote:
>>| my fellow friend in school have a presentation about linux and they are
>>| tasked to report on fc2 luckily i have cds to lend to her,
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>>| now, the point... they are trying to install on a old PII-300 64mb and 1
>>| mb video card and they have a problem installing the fc2 it would just
>>| restart after menu for installation
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>>Sorry to have to point this out, but it won't load on that system. Take
>>a look at the minimum requirements to load fc2 on any computer and
>>you'll see that 64mb isn't enough for a graphical load (which I'm sure
>>is what she wants). In fact, 64mb is the bare minimum for a text install
>>and 192mb minimum for a graphical install.
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>I think you are too pessimistic -
>I was running FC-1 on a 300MHz PII and it ran reasonably well with KDE.
>I'm pretty sure it had 64MB RAM -
>I wasn't able to get find any more RAM which would work in it.
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>I still have the machine, but it is out of commission 
>due to lack of a monitor.
>When I get one I'll try upgrading to FC-2,
>and I don't really expect any problems.
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>The statement that you need 192MB for graphics is nonsense.
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It's the installer that's more demanding. There are a lot of reports of 
people getting FC1 and 2 to run with graphics on low memory. But the 
installer requires 192Mb for a graphical install--which is what Craig said.