On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, Jim Reimer wrote about, Re: install problem - RH6.2:
> May well have been memory - CPU is not overclocked. Pulled the four
> 4-meg sims that were on the motherboard and put in four 8's.
> Installed with no problem.
Oops 16 meg is on the low side and then possably slow chips as well, i
presume you mean 32 pins ram chips of what could now be called old and
obsolite.
>
> By the way.... with 16 meg memory, Red Hat gives you a text-based
> install routine, with 32 (or more, I suppose), you get a gui. Cool.
To be honest i have never installed Redhat on a machine with anything less
than 64 meg.
>
> Regarding system load with new versions (sort of): Back when I had a
> 486DX4-120, the CPU cooling fan quit (and I didn't know it) - the system
> would still run Linux all day long with no problem, but if I booted Windows,
> it would crash within 5 minutes or so. I think Linux has a long way to
> go before it catches up with Windows' bloated system demand. A good thing.
> (Maybe irrelevant, but at least interesting.)
I really meant the install proceedure's get more demanding, of which you
have discovered.
I had a 486/DX 100 which did fail when the cooler was broken, the reason
was a kernel make ;-)
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