What is minimum RAM to install?

Martin Stricker shugal at gmx.de
Sun Aug 24 23:10:56 UTC 2003


Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> 
> I think that 64MB was the minimum for 9. That is doing only a text
> INSTALL. Upgrades and X take significantly more memory. For Severn, I
> dont have an idea.. my last low memory box got fried a couple of
> months ago :(.
> 
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> >Is 64mB the minimum RAM required for installation these days?

If you need to install RHL on a machine with less memory, try out the
RULE installers at http://www.rule-project.org/. Miniconda, based on Red
Hat's Anaconda installer, needs 12 MB, while the shellscript-based
Slinky works nice on 8 MB. Both install only a base system, because
calculating the correct installation order of the RPM packages is one of
the most RAM-hungry steps of the installation. You can then go and
install the missing pieces afterwards.

If RULE doesn't fit your needs, you can put your harddrive into a
computer with sufficient RAM, install it there and put it back. Red
Hat's hardware detection software Kudzu should handle this well - it
does for me.

Or try to get th missing RAM for a few hours just for the install.

Best regards,
Martin Stricker
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