I can't comment about the 256MB limit, I didn't (and wouldn't have) put it in. But my tests showed that it is no problem to run a system with 60Mb or less (with plenty of swap on VDISK) and even compile a kernel on it.
And yes, graphical installs were very painful in the past, I did quite a few of them over the Atlantic when I had to test something and couldn't use the text mode installation ;-( That's why we added the option to install with vnc. This speeds things up a lot and graphical installations over a few thousand miles aren't a problem anymore. Karsten Hopp > It doesn't bother me because I don't plan on ever running Red Hat on my > mainframes. I guess that made me a little too complacent about the whole > thing. I agree that 256MB is out of line for most "routine" deployments. > The graphical installation does require a fair amount of storage to run, but > that can be adjusted after the install is done. Besides, the graphical > install is downright _painful_ if there's a significant amount of network > between you and the machine. But, Red Hat has shown themselves to be > entirely inflexible when it comes to their definition of what configurations > are supported, so I don't see any relief coming in this area. I guess that > influenced my previous responses as well. Their attitude has pretty much > been "deal with it" whenever things like this come up, so that's what I was > doing. > > > Mark Post -- Karsten Hopp | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat Deutschland | Tel: +49-711-96437-0 Hauptstaetterstr.58 | Fax: +49-711-96437-111 D-70178 Stuttgart | http://www.redhat.de
