[NTLUG:Discuss] Red Hat 7.x on low mem hardware

[David Stanaway]

On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 15:21, Courtney Grimland wrote:
> Well, I don't have any more 72-pin RAM other than what's in there (32
> MB).  I don't have a spare box either, so I can't do the install that
> way.  It's not that critical, I was just curious if anyone knew of a
> workaround.  Why does Red Hat do this anyway?  Can I not decide what is
> enough main memory for my purposes?  Uggghhh.

The Debian installer only needs 16 Mb I think. (It used to be less)

You could give that a try maybe (But go for woody install disks... There
are a few gotchas installing the woody install disks at the moment, as
they are frozen for the next `stable' release, and if you are not
carefull and use the defaults, it will try and install the current
release which is stable and secure, but quite old.)

You can install the bootfloppies linux24 flavour which is probably a
good idea too...

If you need any help, I would be happy to answer questions.. but you
might get more support from debian-users at lists.debian.org (Subject:
subscribe To: debian-users-request at lists.debian.org).

If you are just installing a gateway there are some other options too
such as smoothwall and the Linux Router Project.

--
David Stanaway

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