The only monitor I have is the mono lcd on a mighty Packard-Hell 386
laptop with less than 4mb (I can't get the BIOS to give over shadowing
the ROM). It is running SlackHat 3.7 (I started from Slackware 3.4). I
wouldn't evpect a RedHat install to work with less than 8mb; even that
might not be enough. Even with slackware, I had to follow all the
advice in LOWMEM.TXT and invent some evasive maneuvers of my own. With
only 4mb RAM, you don't have room to mess with an initrd to load
modules, or a ramdisk to mount the install root. I had to make a tiny
install partition to copy the install root to, so I had the floppy free
to install from.
It's connected to my monitorless junk-pentium with a homebrew null-modem
cable (slattach), and i use it to telnet and as an X terminal (_very_
slow at 57600 bps).
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If you don't have slackware handy, but you have RedHat on another
system, you can make a custom kernel and install root for the laptop on
it (be sure to include FP emulation) without much trouble, but the stock
RedHat install is designed to go easily onto modern hardware with lots
of RAM, at the expense of being able to work with a minimal system.
Lawson
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On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, [ISO8859-1] Ulf Lundstr=F6m wrote:
> Hi all...
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> I wish to install a RedHat 5.2 on a 386 with only 4 Mb of RAM... =20
> Get alot of messages about not enough memmory... Hmm... =20
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> Is this doable or do I have to go for more RAM... This machine is only
> for educational purpose, so the low RAM is not critical... I simply
foun=
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> an old machine that wasn't used... ;)
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> Any ideas?
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> TIA
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> //Uffe
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> You will soon meet a person who will play an important role in your
life.
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