Re: make it work with 8 MB ram

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On Tue, 09 Oct 2001, Frank Torres wrote:

> I've tried to make the kickstart-from-floppy installation work with 8
> MB RAM.

12Meg is the least I have been successful with.

Redhat 7.0 will do this without modification.

Redhat 7.1, however, seems to need over 16 Meg :-(

> There are who says it has seen it working before, but I haven't
> been able to do it. I've reduced the size of the kernel taking out
> of it all the drivers and modules I don't need. I've also used the
> ramdisk_size parameter, but it didn´t work either. It always produce
> the same error: install exited abnormally -- received signal 9. It's
> is lack of RAM or swap space I've been informed. 128 MB swap space
> it's not that small.

It has to create a ramdisk, and run python. That, I think, is the killer.

> Thanks in advance to all those interested in the subject.

Yes - I am interested.

Cheers,    Andy!





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