On 26/11/2007, Virden, Larry W. <lvirden@xxxxxxx> wrote: > In the past week or so I 'inherited' a hand me down Dell laptop that is > running red hat 7. This is my first redhat as well as first linux > system, though I've used other types of unix for years. > > When one is running a low resource hardware item like a laptop (mine has > 256 meg of memory and about 8 gig of disk), what's a good migration > path? I mean, I presume that attempting to use whatever update mechanism > exists is going to attempt to download a LOT of files - probably more > than will fit on my disk, and for that matter, which might not run even > if downloaded and installed, due to higher memory requirements, etc. > > Anyone else had to deal with this sort of issue? Hate to do this, but try a forklift migration. Red Hat 7 is almost archeologically ancient, and while 256 MB might be enough to *install* another linux if you are a patient person, it will soon drain that patience when you want to use anything on top of it. Kind regards, Herta -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
