Re: 386dx/40

[*snicker* <menion mindless com>]

My friend Tim and I have pretty much determined that in 4 megs, Redhat 
just won't install.  Slackware will tho.  In 8 megs, on a 486 it took us
20
hours to do a hard drive install.  (From a DOS FAT Partition)

	-js

jeff covey wrote:
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> i've taken on the task of installing redhat on a 386dx/40.  i'm using
> the same boot floppy i've used to install on a few different pentiums,
> but when i boot this machine with it, it gets as far as "preparing to
> install", then immediately says "rebooting the system" and does so.
> one problem may be that it only has four megs of ram (i'm trying to
> find four more).  would this cause it?  is there any information about
> the system i could give that would be helpful in diagnosing the
> problem?
> 
> thanks,
> 
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