Re: Low ram - 32mb

[Colin Charles <linux bytebot net>]

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 13:59, David L Norris wrote:
> > Today, a Celeron 500MHz box, with 32MB of RAM popped up in front of me.
> > I popped FC1 in, and anaconda just borked. It got to the CD test stage,
> > skipped that, and the installation terminates.
> 
> The installer skipped the test or you did?  Seems like it would be
> desirable to at least test the first CD to make sure the drive and RAM
> are good.

Disks are known to be good. Repeated with test, all passed.

> If you're going to run X on the system then disable/remove all services
> you can't live without: sendmail, etc.  X hogs all of the 40 MB RAM. 
> With 64 MB its more reasonable but this laptop appears to only support
> 40 MB.  So, I'm trying to rebuild the XFree86 RPM with kdrive support on
> a faster machine.  (Argh, I'm running into "No rule to make target
> `../../../exports/bin/ucs2any', needed by `4x6-ISO8859-1.bdf'.")

So 40MB is the lowest you've gone. Hmm, it still borks on 32MB here. 
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