Install on 32 meg celeron machine

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Dec 26, 2003, Steve Watford <stevew at aui.com> wrote:

> I have a 300 MHz Celeron machine with 32 meg of memory.  Is fedora
> possible on this machine.  I get an anaconda exit abnormally error
> when I try to install from CD.  I realize 64 is the stated min, but
> is there a way around it, possibly with a switch setting or
> different install type.

IIRC, installing over NFS takes less RAM than from CD.

Another thing to try is to just use these old boxes as dumb graphical
terminals.  Then the fact that they have so little memory probably
won't matter all that much.

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