On Thursday 08 November 2001 09:04 am, Anthony (¦w±e¥¿) wrote:
> Actually, I think if you stick to command line mode 24MB should be
> adequate. It's the eye candy that really demands all that memory.
>
> Anthony
Nope, IRRC, it's got more to do with havin enough ram to kick
start the necessary ramdisk, 32 mb min for Mandrake. Spartan Linux
distros could of course do with less. IIRC, my first (floppy) Linux
version ran on 4mb ram. But that was before my time ;>
('man mkinitrd')
" mkinitrd creates filesystem images which are suitable for use as
Linux initial ramdisk (initrd) images. Such images are often used
for preloading the block device modules (such as IDE, SCSI or RAID)
which are needed to access the root filesystem .............. "
I should'a stayed out'a this ... I've had at least 128mb for years,
overclocked ;)
--
Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA
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>
> Tom Brinkman wrote:
> > On Thursday 08 November 2001 08:24 am, Eric Caron wrote:
> > > I tried to install mandrake linux on a pentium 100 with 24 megs
> > > of ram and I couldn't get to the end of the installation. The
> > > packages are installed, but either when configuring the network
> > > parameters or when installing lilo (depends on if I choose low,
> > > medium or high security), the installation dies with a
> > > segfault, saying I don't have enough memory.
> >
> > AFAIK from lurking on the cooker list, 32 mb ram is bare
> > minimum to install Mandrake.
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