On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 13:17 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > My theory is that with only half a gig of ram in this box, tryiung to > > unpack and install a 600+ megabyte (unpacked size according th=o the > > screen reports) is doomed to failure. > > That is definitely not true, > as I have installed Fedora-3 from CDs (and from hard disk) > on machines with 128MB, without any problems. > Installs with 64MB work just fine as well. People are really getting sold on today's hardware ads too much. While there are some/many tasks which will eat as much RAM as possible, "only half a gig of ram" is a statement which does not apply to most/nearly-all mainstream computing. Even most mainstream users, on top-of-the-line systems, run multiple programs beautifully on "only a half a gig of ram". I know *my* primary work machine works perfectly well on 512MB, and I do fairly complex financial models for a living. So you have 10MB *data files* doing complex math, plus the attendant mail clients, word processor, web browser, flight planning, and other programs running, plus the Apache, PostgreSQL, BIND, and other daemons. All on "only a half a gig". Cheers, -- Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
