[Gllug] Linux for old 486

[Jason Clifford]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Alain Williams wrote:

> > The old RH installer (back in the days when it was C based) did much 
> > better with server class hardware (think hardware RAID systems) and would 
> > work in systems that had 8MB of RAM and perhaps less.
> 
> I seem to remember installing on a 5Mb box once.

The first time I installed a proper distro (Slackware back when it was 
new) was onto a 386SX with 4MB of RAM.

It wasn't terribly fast (floppy disk installs - arghh) but it did install.

I can understand big RAM requirements for an install that uses X but 
something curses based shouldn't require more than a fairly standard 
kernel.

Jason Clifford
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