On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 10:04 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 07:41:04AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Konrad Meyer wrote: > > > Quoth Andrew Farris: > > >> Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > >>> [1] One of these machines is an ancient i586. On this machine, RAM is > > >>> such kind of tight (64MB), any spared memory is valuable. More built-in > > >>> kernel modules probably will mean the death of Fedora on this class of > > >>> machines. > > >> I would have thought it already got there.. 64Mb wow? > > > > > > I have a i586 with 128M of ram running Fedora 8. It doesn't run X, but it > > > works great as a low-capacity web/dhcp/etc server and router. > > > > Do these older/limited machines do anything better now than they did in > > the 2.4 kernel days? > > Good luck trying to get the installer to run on anything less than 512MB these days. I did an install on 128MiB a few days ago, after manually fixing the fact that we _copy_ stage2.img into RAM before using it. (Did that get fixed for real yet?). -- dwmw2 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
