Why Would Fedora be Free ? Can it be Trusted?

duncan brown duncanbrown at linuxadvocate.net
Wed May 12 15:27:54 UTC 2004


Rodolfo J. Paiz said:

> Just make sure you can get 64MB RAM into it for the install in text
> mode.  Anaconda (the installer) actually has larger memory requirements
> than the  operating system. If you have only 32MB for example, get
> another 32MB to  put in the box, install it in text mode, then when you
> reboot, remove the  32MB. FC1 will run fine on a P/90 system with 32MB
> of RAM and at least a  600MB or 800MB hard drive. I'm doing it on
> several machines.

i've installed fc1 on 32mb of ram on a p166, you just have to have
anaconda activate the swap before it'll start installing software.

-d

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