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From: Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 7:59 AM
Subject: Re: install problem - RH6.2
> 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.
I've installed RedHat 6.2 in 26 machines Pentium 150 with 16 Mb RAM without
problems... Well the only problems I had were a mistake in kickstart scripts
(the DOC wasn´t fine about spanish language specs) and a wrong specification
path in the NFS server from which I installed it and it threw also Signal 11
error as the client machine couldn't find the server.
>
> >
> > 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 ;-)
>
> --
> Regards Richard
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
>
>
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