On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 18:57 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Anne Wilson <cannewilson <at> tiscali.co.uk> writes: > > At the other end of the scale, last night I took to my local LUG a laptop > that > > is nearing its 6th birthday, has a 700 processor, 256MB RAM, and is running > > FC6. It's not the fastest machine on the block, and doesn't have fancy > > things like wifi, but boy, were they impressed! > > Hey, you're not at the end of the scale yet. :-p My laptop has a 266 MHz > Pentium II and 160 MB of RAM and it runs FC6 too. :-) How I got it installed > with so few RAM? I had installed FC2 when that was the current version, then > upgraded to FC5 with Anaconda and a few restarts (because it would hang when > loading the repodata from the next ISO due to low RAM), and now I upgraded it > to FC6 using apt-get dist-upgrade. ---- while I was bored hanging around after a motorcycle accident, I installed FC-5 on my Vaio C-1X (the original Sony PictureBook) with only 4G HD, 266 MHz P-II and 64Mb RAM. It's slow as a dog but it works. I simply launch the NX-Client application, get a terminal off my freenx server and it screams ;-) Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
