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

[kbrannen@gte.net]

I seem to recall in the past that an installer I had would still allow you to 
install even with 4M of RAM, as long as you had a decent sized swap partition. 
(and weren't in a hurry :-)

If the initial screens of the intaller bail on you before you get to the disk 
partitioning part, it sounds like you may be screwed.  OTOH, if you have 
access to Partition Magic, or can install the drive in another machine 
temporarily, you can partition it that way.  Create a 128M swap partition 
(partition type 82), and see if that helps.

Good Luck!
Kevin


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.
> 
> On 25 May 2002 14:42:48 -0500
> David Stanaway <david at stanaway.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 14:11, Courtney Grimland wrote:
>>
>>>Does anyone know how to get around the Red Hat installer telling me
>>>my computer has too little memory to install?  I don't want to
>>>install X or anything, just a few network services.
>>
>>
>>Is it possible for you to install more RAM for the install, or to do
>>the install on the harddisk in another machine?
>>
>>--
>>David Stanaway
>>
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