Required Hardware?

[Jeffrey H. Young]

I have an Intel 386, with 3.5"-1.44MB & 5.25"-1.2MG floppies, a Backpack CDROM on my parallel port, and WDC AC21200H 1279MB hard drive1 and a ST3145A 130MB hard drive2, VGA, Serial, yada yada.  Your hardware requirements says the system should have 12MB RAM.  Any chance I can get my system running with only 8MB?