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

[Courtney Grimland]

I prefer Red Hat.  No particular reason, I've just always used Red Hat,
and I'm comfortable with Red Hat.  I know the file locations, I like the
init process, I like RPM (in a "it sucks the least" kind of way, but no
offense to the apt lovers out there), etc.

It's not going to be my gateway (built that from scratch), and it's not
going to be my desktop (built that one from scratch too).  It's going to
be a web/ftp server primarily, maybe DB too.  Maybe I'll have to build
this one from scratch too.  I've gotten to be a big fan of the Linux
>From Scratch Project, but it can get a little tedious sometimes.

Anyhow, I guess I'll poke around the Red Hat list archives a little, see
if I can come up with something.

Thanks.


On 25 May 2002 15:42:25 -0500
David Stanaway <david at stanaway.net> wrote:

> 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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