The RedHat 7.1 installer says that my old box at home (16Mb)
"doesn't have enough System memory to install RedHat Linux", and only
offerend an "OK" button, rather than letting me say "try anyway".
Yeah, it might swap like an old lady at a yard sale, and X may be no
fun, but shouldn't that be my call? I presume that the install disk
is booting a 2.4 kernel, in which case we know that 2.4 at least runs
in 16Mb.
So, other than buying more RAM (if the box will take it) or
reading through the anaconda sources, does anyone have an easy way
around this?
Or possibly this is because the install kernel needs to run
without swap space? Since I only want to do an upgrade, my existing
swap partitions are actually available, if there's a way to tell the
installer to use it.
Alternatively, does anyone know whether an upgrade is anything
more than updating a set of packages? If that's all, is there a
specific subset to do first, because of interdependencies, such that
the rest could be rpm'ed afterwards in dribbs and drabs?
Bill
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