Install on 32 meg celeron machine
Steve Watford
stevew at aui.com
Sat Dec 27 13:52:27 UTC 2003
No that was the point Philipp. It won't even attempt the install. linux text
starts the text install, but anaconda just exits because of the ram limit. I
went back last nite and installed shrike RH9 on the machine and it is now
running, although quite slowly. It isn't processor limiting, I am getting
timeout errors from the HD because of all the swapping going on. I think I may
be able to make these work with some of the lighter weight desktop/browsers out
there. It has sort of become a challenge now, I guess.
Thanks for the help
Steve
Quoting Philipp Leser <p.leser at leser.ruhr.de>:
> Hi,
>
> Am Fr, den 26.12.2003 schrieb Steve Watford um 23:39:
> > I have a 300 MHz Celeron machine with 32 meg of memory. Is fedora possible
> on
> > this machine. I get an anaconda exit abnormally error when I try to
> install
> > from CD. I realize 64 is the stated min, but is there a way around it,
> > possibly with a switch setting or different install type.(http?)
>
> You should use the text-mode installer instead, it should work fine on
> your system. Look at the help screens at the boot up screen that comes
> up when you boot the CD for the kernel option.. I think it's something
> like "linux textmode".
>
> > I have 5 of
> > these machines in our office that are running NT40 just fine and since they
>
> > are basically used to run a browser and hit an apache server I would prefer
>
> > not to have to upgrade them all.
>
> I'm using Fedora on PII 300 box, a full-blown GNOME desktop by the way,
> without any problems at all. It is pretty much as usable as WinXP,
> speedwise. You definitely need more RAM though, 128 would be ok.
>
> Regards,
> Philipp Leser
>
>
>
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