On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:33:13PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > Just for funsies I attempted a text mode install in an i386 KVM guest > with 128 megs of ram. Using today's rawhide boot.iso (which has stage2 > on it) and pointing it at an http mirror. Guess what, the install > completed fine, and booted after the fact. I picked a minimal package > set from the package selector (included vim-enhanced though). That's > still 428~ packages. > > So why do you have to go through gyrations to install Fedora on 128 meg > machines? Or why do you have to install something other than Fedora? I can only speak for the setups I tried and those failed with 128MB on the installer in text mode. As I said earlier for the firewall I installed something else because fedora was the wrong tool for the job anyway - a box which is just firewalling and masquerading doesn't want a traditional distro on it - even if it does fit. Alan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
