On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 11:55 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > On 12/29/06, john s. <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > jim tate wrote: > > > Alan wrote: > > >>> Good Will Industries used to slap FC3 on theirs, in Roanoke VA. Great > > >>> people to do so. They'd sell an entire outfit for $100. I doubt FC5 or > > >>> FC6 would install though. Happy New Year to you, too. Ric > > >>> > > >> > > >> A small FC6 install will drop fine onto a 128MB box although for a small > > >> box its quicker to set up an image on a larger box, make sure it has the > > >> right i586 etc kernel/glibc installed and then rsync it using an > > >> external > > >> disk caddy > > >> > > >> A base system with X, xfce, sylpheed, abiword should be quite > > >> acceptable, > > >> just avoid all the heavy gnome/kde stuff. > > >> > > >> Alan > > >> > > >> > > > Yeah, will I can't FC6 to install on a HP omnibook laptop because of , > > > only 128meg of memory. > > > > > Noticed the same thing with mine. Installed okay with 384mb. > > > > Since version 10.1 OpenSuSE requires 384 MB of memory to run in live > mode. It's really a crying shame: There are so many old boxes with 256 > MB or less memory and I cannot demo either of the top Linux distros on > them. > > How do you convert people if they cannot try out the product? What > other live distros are in the same boat? The older versions of RH and Caldera would run just fine on 486's, once you re-rolled the kernel to include the bare bones of what you needed. Video, sound, printer and a VGA driver and you were set. God only knows what has happened since then. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
