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David L Norris wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 07:58, Colin Charles wrote:
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<pre wrap="">So 40MB is the lowest you've gone. Hmm, it still borks on 32MB here.
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Well, it seems that 32MB is too low. I just ran some tests.
FC1:
32 MB - Error, "Install exited abnormally"
36 MB - Successfully starts anaconda
40 MB - Successfully starts anaconda
FC2-test1:
32 MB - Hangs at "Running anaconda..."
36 MB - Hangs at "Running anaconda..."
40 MB - Successfully starts anaconda
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I had FC1 loaded on a p.o.s. computer (200 Mhz with 64MB, and an old
slow hard drive).<br>
The low memory caused everything to run slow because X was using it
all, and any swapping was extra-painful with the slow disk.<br>
<br>
I installed Feather Linux <a href="http://featherlinux.berlios.de/">http://featherlinux.berlios.de/</a>
(lightweight version of Knoppix) and the thing absolutely screams. <br>
(the only thing I had to change after install to get it to boot was to
comment out the attempt to enable dma). <br>
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OR, You could leave FC on there and use some of the lightweight apps
(especially the window manager) that Feather Linux uses<br>
(the following list is straight from the website) :<br>
<p align="left"><em><strong>What applications does it include?</strong></em></p>
<p align="left">As of version 0.3.6, it includes:<br>
Kernel 2.4.22, Ted, ABS, Dillo (patched for frames and tabs), XMMS,
wavplay, mpg321, ogg123 and other Ogg Vorbis tools, Sylpheed, axyFTP,
emelFM, cdrecord, mkisofs,
rdesktop, parted, partimage, antiword, e2undel, iftop, bbpager,
utelnetd, picocom, index, gpart, socat, traceroute, SciTE,
prozilla, Midnight Commander, Samba, CUPS and Foomatic, mplayer,
mount.app, chntpw, zile, tinycc, nano, Xpaint, Xzgv, Xpdf, naim,
tinyirc, KNOPPIX Terminal Server, hdparm, recover, amap, hping2,
cabextract, splitvt, pciutils, LinNeighborhood, nmap and nmapfe,
portmap and nfs-common, aumix, CTorrent, VNCviewer, sqlite,
links-hacked, SSH and SCP, DHCP client, xtdesktop, PPP and PPPoE
support, NTFS resize support, the Monkey webserver, Xcalc, Fluxbox, the
XBase apps, and the various standard console and system tools.</p>
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