Hi,
Just thought I'd add my 2-penneth worth to this (even if it is highly
off topic)
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Shadow Daemon wrote:
> > Actually, I recently installed RedHat 6.1 on a 486/8Mb. The trick was to
> > do a NFS install, and forget about the installation program the moment
> > the shell-prompt appeared on the second console.
>
> I had to custom-create the boot disk and root fs, but I've got
> Slackware 7.0 running on a 386 with 2mbs of ram. At least as far as slack
> is concerned, 1 meg is all that's needed to run, but 4 megs is required
> for the install process.
>
> I could be completely mistaken about that, however.
I believe the lower limit is 2Mb, but I've put Slack on a fair few
machines with very little ram - just make a custom kernel and use that as
the boot disk, so it uses only as much as you need - nothing more. If you
don't need it for the machine to boot/access HDD/talk to network - you
don't need it :&)
Bye for now,
Matt
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