Cameron Nikitiuk said: > Hi All, > > Really simple question for anyone. I won a Red Hat 8.0 book at the > InstallFest and was thinking I could breath some life into an old combo > monitor/HDD box I have. Probably just going to have it for goofing > around, experiemntation and possibly as a low scale admin box. > > Any idea on what the minimum requirements would be for RH 8? I have
http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/technical/ > heard RH tends to run better on 386/486 class systems with as little as > 8 MB of RAM? I know about alternative window managers and low resource > software and am looking at a few peices. I just want to realistically > know what I can do with it. Maybe I am on crack or something, but I > checked the website and the book and couldn't find listing her > requirements. > I tried to put redhat 6.0 and 7.x on a 486 laptop once, the problem is the laptop only had 48 Megs of RAM which is not enough RAM for either installation type (text/graphical). Redhats installer is quite a memory hog, as would be SuSEs and Mandrakes. You can try and install it on a computer with 8 Megs of RAM but I don't think the installer will even run and according to the specs on their site, redhat 8.0 needs a pentium or higher. For a computer of those specs I would recommend Slackware or Debian. > Any insights as to installation and such would be appreciated as well. > > Cameron Cheers, Trevor
