Re: Hardware Requirements for red-hat Linux

[Matt Drew <mdrew redhat com>]

The official hardware requirements are a Pentium processor or better, and
32MB of RAM.  I have seen 7.0 run okay (in text mode) on as little as 8MB
of RAM, with a really minimal install and a little tweaking.  Linux itself
can go down into the kilobyte ranges of RAM if required with a LOT of
work.  However, even the embedded people usually stick to 4-8MB.  The
machine I run at home as a firewall is a P233/96MB, which is way
over-powered.

As far as multi-homing goes, the only real requirement is two network
cards that work under Linux and can be put in the machine you have.  You
can get an idea of what Red Hat supports at hardware.redhat.com, and there
are other sites around the net that supply various amounts of good
information (www.linuxdoc.org, www.scyld.com).  The best thing you can do
is stick with slightly older cards, and get the chipset off of them so
that you can find out what driver to use under Linux.  If they are PCI
cards, you can usually get an idea of what they are from the "lspci -vb"
command (from Linux).

There is also the LRP, the Linux Router Project, which is a distro of
Linux that runs from a single floppy disk.  They've successfully run a
router on a machine as small as a 386, but the HOW-TO recommends at least
a 486 with 12-16MB of RAM.  If you just need a router and don't have a lot
of cash, that's a good way to go.

On 25 Jun 2001, Subramaniam Chinnasamy wrote:

> Hi All,
> I want to install red-hat Linux with Multihome Support.
> I need the Hardware Requirement for the same..
>
> If anyone know about this, please help me out..
>
> Thanks
> C.Subramaniam

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Matt Drew
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