On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 10:54, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > You cannot make generalizations like that about Linux and not expect to get > shot down for it, since they simply *are not true*. Indeed, my situation is an excellent example. It's a kickstart install that configures the machine to run basically only a few processes: X -query 192.168.1.1 cupsd esd -public -tcp syslogd On bootup it boots directly into an XDMCP login screen from a RH9 server with 512MB of ram. Runs fine on 53MB of system memory. In fact, it's quite zippy. BTW, I did get it to install. There turned out to be no obvious way to change the system/video memory partitioning. But in the BIOS I changed the IDE drive type from DOS to OTHER and changed another setting that was set to Windows5.x to OTHER. I then tried a graphical install and it aborted, probably due to memory. I burned a new kickstart CD which installs in text mode and everything went fine. And of course there had to be a flakey CDROM drive thrown in just to make it more interesting. I would bet that half the linux installs that fail are really due to a flakey CDROM drive. When installing on unknown hardware I always figure a 50-50 chance that the CD reader's not bad enough to be obvious but not up do doing a whole OS installation either. -Steve
