-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 29 November 2002 12:36 am, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 18:08, Ed Wilts wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 09:12:39PM +0100, Bastiaan Welmers wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Does anyone know where I can find the system requirements / advised > > > system properties > > > for any release of RedHat Linux? For example, until which version > > > can I install on > > > an i386 8MB Ram?
> > There is *no* safe version of Red Hat Linux that can be installed on > > a 386 with 8MB Ram. All versions that old have serious security > > holes. The RULE project's installers can help install the 7.2, 7.3, and 8.0 releases on machines with as little as 8M of RAM. http://www.rule-project.org/ > As an added data point, I just completed an upgrade to 7.3 on my home > firewall box a IBM P90 with 32mb. Text mode install went fine. I > can't imagine running ANYTHING less than 16MB and not sure how you > would get it installed other than one of the micro distros. > > although looking at it now it really runs pretty lean, > > [bhughes@hughesfw bhughes]$ free > total used free shared buffers > cached > Mem: 29496 24800 4696 0 9760 > 10372 > -/+ buffers/cache: 4668 24828 > Swap: 256024 1720 254304 > > Of course this is a firewall only with sshd about the only service > other than ipchains, soon to be iptables and will probably do the ipsec > deal again that I had running under 6.2 on the same box. I used the RULE "Slinky" installer to install the 8.0 release on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 420CDS. (P100 w/ 40M of RAM.) Then I added a minimal version of XFree86 using the Xkdrive servers and the fluxbox window manager. It's actually fairly responsive. Less than 5 seconds from "startx" to a usable desktop. Partial "top" output: 34 processes: 33 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 11.9% user, 1.1% system, 0.0% nice, 86.8% idle Mem: 37740K av, 37156K used, 584K free, 0K shrd, 636K buff Swap: 193528K av, 0K used, 193528K free 26408K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 690 root 15 0 4692 2644 1128 S 9.6 7.0 0:05 X 723 mfratoni 16 0 928 928 752 R 1.7 2.4 0:00 top 557 root 15 0 1428 1428 1280 S 0.1 3.7 0:03 sshd 694 root 15 0 2440 2440 1908 S 0.1 6.4 0:00 xterm Screenshots available here: http://www.rule-project.org/en/screenshots.php/ - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE95wiMn/07WoAb/SsRApy4AJ9f6LV0sAzYSHDG3WCLR/tm+mpJgQCfS1r6 d1OcRRhCius2OBl2n6YdSLA= =yPJH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
