[PLUG] Install Weirdness

[AthlonRob]

On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 07:38, Jeme A Brelin wrote:

> I hate to butt in here, but are you freaking kidding me?
> 
> Does Red Hat actually give requirements like that?

I was thinking the same thing........

That's worse than most Windozes out there.

> I've performed Debian installs on machines with 8MB RAM without a hitch.
> 
> Are other commercial distributions this hoggish (assuming that the above
> requirements exist in addition to the enormous hard disk requirements of
> Red Hat)?

You can install Slackware on a system with 5MB of RAM... less if you
really know what you're doing (get away w/o an initrd).

It wouldn't be pretty.... but you could do it.  :-)

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