It's an ISA w/ VLB connection machine.... and it takes IBM RAM... so I can't use generics. And IBM SIMMS are going to cost more than the machine did (remember, I only paid $30 for the entire machine, sans my added VLB 2 MB Video Card and the 1.6 GB HD, but including the monitor, keyboard, mouse and NIC... quite a bargain, even if it is near obsolete). So the suggestion to buy more RAM isn't going to work; I'd sooner just return this machine (I have a 90 day exchange) and get a different box that would take the standard RAM. Bill Ward -----Original Message----- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 3:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Network Installs on a low memory 486.... how do I do it? On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Gustav Schaffter wrote: > Ward, > > FYI, I did an ftp install of RH6.2 on a 486 with 16MB of RAM just a few > days ago. Not one hiccup. > > OTOH, the one difference I see is that I had just one IDE disk on the > single IDE controller. I choose ftp since I've not foreseen to get a > CD-ROM for this PC at all. > Yeah. One problem I can see -- if this is an MCA machine, you'll have a devil of a time finding cards for the slots! Not sure if IBM was still using MCA when they put out the 486's. Finding ram might be difficult as well, as it takes some special ram, which will work fine in other systems, but other, "generic" ram won't work in some IBM machines. :-/ John _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
