I can only offer general comments. There is a Laptop HowTo that may have
comemnts about your particular laptop -- some have peculiarities that make
installs a problem (such things as odd X requirements, offbeat CD drivers,
etc.).
So ... general comments. 8 megs is the bare minimum for a RH install, but it
is enough, especially if you stick with console-based apps (or do a really
slimmed-down X - Lawson can offer better suggestions here than I can). Your
real problem will be the hard disk -- after RH (or any distribution,
realistically) carves off (probably) 32 megs for swap, you're left with
about 170 megs of filesystem, which is teensy for a modern RH install. On
that ground, I'd suggest looking at a different distribution -- Slackware is
best among the majors for these small installations; Debian is so-so. Or
there are mid-size ones, like Peanut, Dragon, Zipslack (a Slackware
variant), and a couple of others.
At 11:46 PM 11/24/99 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I was thinking of trying an install on a Toshiba Satelite: T1960T laptop
with 8K
>ram ,color vga display, 200 mb HD currently running WINdoze 3.11 pcmia 28.8 k
>fax/modem.... is such a thing possible? Is there too little RAM? What about a
>tiny install ? any suggestions?
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Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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