-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 19 October 2002 09:43 pm, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 08:12:14 +1000 (EST) > "Andrew Smith" <rhml2@k1k2.com> wrote: > > # Size of the 586 kernel on CD1 = 13428206 > # > # I'm sure it could have been put on CD2 ... but then ... > > Don't forget about the srpm needed as well, and the i586 bigmem, or > i586 SMP, and on and on and on... I think the point is that room _could_ have been made, if the desire were there. CD3 contains over 100MB of source rpms, ~50MB of which could have easily been moved to CD4. Red Hat has opted to abandon all the older hardware that is out there. I can understand not wanting to provide support for these older machines, but to remove any reasonable possibility of installing Red Hat Linux on them? That's their choice of course, but from the perspective of the RULE project, it sucks. (Speaking only as a developer for the project, not as the voice of the project.) The RULE installer for 8.0 will install on an i386 with 8M of RAM, without any difficulty. However, the installed system will fail to boot on any i3(4)86 that needs more options in the kernel than the kernel-BOOT package provides. For example, any machine needing kernel math emulation (Less than a 486DX, I believe?) There are plenty of work arounds available of course, it just shouldn't have to be so difficult. ;) - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3} in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9shM3n/07WoAb/SsRAmswAJ0YX0shgphu9R7aZyTTJcUOr3litwCgsj7a zo84rK5sC6u+DoxrgVYlNPQ= =TrXy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
