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

[Bill Vinson]

I thought RedHat 7.1 would, but you had to use the text installer?

Bill

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Randy Dees wrote:

> 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
> > (GPG Key: Send email with Subject: send gpg )
> 
> 
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