[K12OSN] Re: K12OSN Digest, Vol 12, Issue 110

Burke Almquist balmquist at mindfirestudios.com
Mon Feb 21 12:37:15 UTC 2005


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That's 8MB of RAM, not video RAM though. It might work using NFS swap, 
but it probably won't be pretty. Least that's my guess.

On Feb 21, 2005, at 1:29 AM, Sudev Barar wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 11:03, Nataraj S Narayan wrote:
>> I have tried out LTSP 4 successfully on RH 7.3.
>>
>> Is it possible to work on X using 486 machines with just 8Mb Ram, SIS 
>> 6215
>> PCI card, old VGA monitor?
>
> Yes.
>
> Set USE_NFS_SWAP = Y & SWAPFILE_SIZE =64m
> Max resolution you will get is 600x480
> Try XF86_VGA16 or Xvesa for server setting
> Older SIS cards are notorious you may have to dump them.
> -- 
> Sudev Barar
> Learning Linux
>
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