John Reiser <jreiser <at> BitWagon.com> writes: > The RULE Project (Run Up2date Linux Everywhere) has an installer "slinky" > http://www.fzk.at/SLINKY/ that can install Fedora Core 5 in 32MB RAM. > I did it in 64MB on a PentiumMMX-166 in about 3.5 hours. Starting OpenOffice > took two minutes, but typing and mousing was fine. That's probably the best solution for fresh installs. For upgrades, apt-get dist-upgrade will get you through. I guess yum or smart will also work. That's also the way to get FC6 until Slinky is updated for it. For my laptop (160 MB RAM), what I did was: * install FC2 (back when it was current), an almost minimal install (essentially minimal+KDE) over HTTP worked * upgrade to FC5 using Anaconda when that was current - not a nice experience, Anaconda just hung when reading in the metadata for the second ISO, requiring a restart, and so on; at least, it didn't crash during a transaction and leave duplicated packages around (i.e. I was lucky) * upgrade to FC6 using apt-get dist-upgrade. No hickups other than that I had to rpm --rebuilddb afterwards, it's probably the same "corrupted RPM database" bug there's already a thread about on one of the lists. (It also hits some yum or Anaconda users.) Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
