Re: Installing RH7.1 on a system with 8MB RAM

[Andrew Markebo <flognat flognat myip org>]

/ spoppi gmx net (Sandro Poppi) wrote:
| Hi there,
| 
| I want to install RedHat 7.1 on an old 486 PC with only 8 MB of system
| memory, but using text mode installation says "You don't have enough
| system memory to install Red Hat on this machine".

The Redhat 7.1 installation _REQUIRES_ something like 16MB of
memory.. so skip that (or plug in some extra memory while installing,
I know of people who have ran redhat on 12MB after that, nothing about
8MB though)

Or grab some other installation that doesn't require this amount of
memory.

        /Andy