On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 01:24:04PM -0400, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
The amount of RAM seems to be the biggest issue with running distros
on older systems. ...
I have found that you need at least 256 MB of RAM. I think the stated
minimum is 192 MB or something like that...
That sounds about right.
In addition, there is also the minimum amount of RAM necessary to
install, which may be higher. I was able to install Xubuntu on a 68 MB
machine some years ago by using the text installation and installing a
command line only system. I went to that the first time Fedora wouldn't
install on it.
There was a nasty problem with RPM a few years ago that only shows up
in a low memory situation: if RPM fails to install a apackage because
it runs out of memory, it returns a value which Anaconda and yum
interpret as sucess. So it is possible to complete the process and
reboot to a corrupted sytem.
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