[ale] Old Laptop

Preston Boyington PBoyington at polyengineering.com
Fri Jun 27 11:11:34 EDT 2003






> 
> Just curious ... even if installing in text mode and 
> selecting a server
> config, does Red Hat 9 refuse to install if RAM < 32 MB?  I 
> also have a
> 90 MHz Pentium-based laptop (albeit 24 MB RAM) in my 
> collection.  RH 7.3
> did install, even with XFree86 running 800x600 8-bit color, but that
> version of GNOME seemed to cause some extremely random crashes ...
> 


RH8 would not install with less than 64MB with anything I tried.  Haven't tried RH9 but would expect similar results.







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