Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On 5/20/07, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>
> For what it's worth, I have RedHat 9 running on a system with very
> similar spec's.
> However, I might recommend Damn Small Linux instead.
RH9 is no longer supported, Fedora Legacy has dropped it as well as most
of the rest of the Fedora line. This is why I cannot recommend RH9 for
any use.
Damn Small Linux does work, and is great to put onto a USB keyfob.
My point in mentioning RH9 was that you don't have to go back in time
as far as RH6.2 to find something that will run on that hardware. For
that matter, I think that Fedora Core 6 would do OK if you installed
neither Gnome nor KDE. You get the rather primitive twm for a window
manager. It reminds me very much of what I had on my VAXstation II in
the early 80's.
carl
FC6 will not install on a system with less than 256 MB RAM, even without
KDE or Gnome. Anaconda is such a pig that the system goes memory locked
early in the install process. I just went through this on a Toshiba
Tecra 8000 with 128 MB RAM. Fortunately, I was able to add another 128
MB to it, and FC6 installed fine.
For all I know, FC6 will actually install, given enough time. But my
recent experience is that time will be measured in days if not weeks.
OTOH, FC5 will install fine in 128 MB. But beware, you still can't
upgrade to FC6 from the FC5, due to lack of RAM. Also, both FC5 and FC6
run a bit slow (even with XFCE) on this PII-400.
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