[Fedora-spins] A Fedora spin which fit for systems with 128MB RAM

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Sun Feb 27 20:11:27 UTC 2011


On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:14:20 +0530
Danishka Navin <danishka at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:41:06 +0530
> > Danishka Navin <danishka at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > I can find loadds of systems with 128MB RAM in my region.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately neither F13 nor F14 fit for those systems.
> > >
> > > And older versions are EOL.
> > >
> > > Can't we make a spin for systems with low resources?
> >
> > well, given that anaconda currently requires more than 768MB, a spin
> > isn't going to help. ;(
> >
> > I'd suggest working with kernel and anaconda folks to try and get
> > memory usage down.
> >
> > Also, note that Fedora now builds for i686, so if the machines
> > predate that, your only choice is trying to start a "i486/i586"
> > secondary arch effort.
> >
> 
> 
> ‌What about using TUI version of the anaconda?

I don't know how much memory that saves really. 

You could try it out and let us know? :) 

kevin
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