Hi Cameron, Just for a point of reference I've installed RH8 on a p166 with 48mb ram and a P200mmx with 32mb ram. The only warning I got was that the /swap partition had to be written immediately because of so little ram. Performance is fine for a development box (php anyway) but I don't know where it tops out user wise.
tyler -----Original Message----- From: Cameron Nikitiuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 11:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Installation - Red Het 8.0 Ooops...see what little sleep gets you? You are right, I was going to put RH on the 200 Mhx box. Duh...I am going with slack 8.1 for the mini box. Thanks for correcting my brain fart! Thanks for the insight though ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trevor Lauder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 11:42 PM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Installation - Red Het 8.0 > 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 > >
