On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 03:15 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 16:54 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 08:45 +0800, Russell wrote:
> > > > How much system memory do you have on your computer?
> > >
> > > I have 256M system memory, and 32M for display adapter. So there is 224M
> > > Bytes left.
> >
> > That's a bit tight for a GUI-based installation. You might try a text
> > install ("boot: linux text"), then later config up the GUI via the
> > "system-config-display" command.
>
> I couldn't get it to install at all on an older machine with 256 megs of
> memory, so I used FC5 and managed to install that in text mode. I'll
> probably leave it at that. God only knows why I chose to beat that dead
> horse, but I just had to. <grins> She served me well in her day. Ric
>
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Hi, guys,
The machine I am using right now is my old celeron with 265M and sharing
video. It seems to work pretty well. Generally when it messes up, it
is because I am still playing with things. Running the monitor shows
the memory only about half used and only about 40M of swap.
Of course I don't have this machine acting as a server, but it seems
pretty credible. I get occasional hangs on Evolution, but it seems
related to my ISP here rather than an out and out Evolution bug. I have
also heard several of you discussing using Thunderbird for email, but I
haven't gotten that far yet.
Regards,
Les H
