latest redhat/fedora for a !old! notebook ?

[David Timms]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> David Timms <dtimms <at> iinet.net.au> writes:
>> 1. The FC6 installer jumps in pretty quickly to say ~"you dont have
>> enough ram for fedora core 6", and then exits.
>> With just 32MB ram, what is the latest fedora/redhat that should be
>> installable ?
> 
> I'd recommend looking at the Slinky installer:
> http://www.fzk.at/SLINKY/
> It currently supports up to FC5. You can upgrade that to FC6 using apt-rpm 
> (update your sources.list and sources.list.d/*.list, apt-get update; apt-get 
> dist-upgrade), or yum or smart if you prefer. Make sure you set up enough swap 
> space though, you'll need it.
OK, I'll give that a try as well. I guess that would mean continuous 
swap file usage, even at idle. The idea was for it to be a FC based 
router/dhcp/dns server.

Does this suggest that yum/rpm are just too memory hungry for such a 
machine ?

DaveT.