Re: Install on 32 meg celeron machine

["M.Hockings" <veeshooter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

mwafkowski wrote:

> With a graphical browser? No!
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> MRW
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Watford" <stevew@xxxxxxx>
> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 5:39 PM
> Subject: Install on 32 meg celeron machine
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> > I have a 300 MHz Celeron machine with 32 meg of memory.  Is fedora
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> possible on
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> > this machine.  I get an anaconda exit abnormally error when I try to
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> install
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> > from CD.  I realize 64 is the stated min, but is there a way around it,
> > possibly with a switch setting or different install type.(http?)  I have 5
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> of
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> > these machines in our office that are running NT40 just fine and since
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> they
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> > are basically used to run a browser and hit an apache server I would
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> prefer
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> > not to have to upgrade them all.
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> > Thanks
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I would think that if they are working fine then why give yourself the 
extra work of changing things? Or do you need a make-work project?

I have installed  RH8 on a 32M P133 and it spent most of it's life 
paging.  The Cel 300 would probably be fine, not peppy but OK,  with FC1 
if you added an additional 128M to the machines.

Mike