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[Ralph Blach]

On am embedded power pc project with 256 mb of ram, I ran fvwm, just 
fine.  This was with nfs root and a very old matrox video card.

I also compiled xdoom, madplay, and mozilla.

So this can be done, you will just need to install the basic machine in 
text mode, the install x, and fvwm along with the apps you want.

Chip.

Tony Nelson wrote:
> On 10-01-07 18:40:16, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>>> we at work have some PC's with 256 MB RAM, the graphical mode
>>> doesn't load, so we choice the text mode, but in all machines we
>>> get the same error, Anaconda 12.47
>>>
>>> do you have an idea how to solve it?
>>
>> Yeah, add ram. Anaconda needs like 1/2 gig, and nevermind trying to
>> Fedora w/<  1/2gig as well...
>
> Umm, don't you think that the Anaconda developers know what is
> required, and that the rather minimal text-mode install is designed to
> use less memory?
>
> OP:  There may be useful info in the other VTs when the error occurs.
>
> If you can't find a workaround, try Debian, which has much better
> support than Fedora for small memory machines, due to the different
> goals of the projects.  If you want to run a GUI on 256 MB, you might
> want to choose something less memory-hungry than Gnome or KDE.
>