[TriLUG] [errol at boo-bear.com: Redhat 7.1 on 486/16MB RAM?]

[Randy Dees]

Red Hat 7.1 - nope, it cannot.  Refuses to install.

Debian 2.1 will.  Red Hat 6.2 should.  (Va Linux 6.2.4 is on the mirrors site,
ought to do nicely.)

I'll be installing Va 6.2.4 onto my 486/16mb/1gb system shortly, and will be
able to confirm it.  Just waiting for a good download.

Speaking of downloads - any way we could put up md5sums for the isos on 
the mirror site?  Download, burn, test coaster is a lousy way to determine that
I had a bad download!

Anyhoo - hope this helps, Errol.

Later.

Randy Dees

And behold, Errol Casey spake these words on Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 10:46:16PM -0400:
> Resent since I am posting from a difference subscription address.
> 
> (hopefully I have my send hook setup so this will make it
> to the list)
> 
> It has been a few years since I've installed linux
> on a 16MB system. Can Redhat 7.1 be squeezed onto
> a 16MB box with approx 160MB of disk space.
> 
> Of course, I don't want X, etc. just development
> tools (C), to compile qpage (a pager application).
> 
> Had a box that had been doing the job die after
> about 5 years of use; the old IDE drive died in
> it.
> 
> If Redhat will not install on such a limited system;
> can you recommend other distros? I've only used
> Redhat and Mandrake (realizing mandrake expects
> higher end processor, etc.)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Errol Casey
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