Re: Redhat 8 Install on Old Laptop (Problem)

2003-01-10 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 08:46:52AM -0800, Cliff Wells wrote: > On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 08:02, Alex wrote: > > I recently tried to install Redhat 8 on an old Pentium-75 Laptop with > > 24MB of RAM (its actually a TI Travelmate 5300). > > > Does a TEXT based install of RedHat really require more than

Re: Redhat 8 Install on Old Laptop (Problem)

2003-01-10 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 03:37:51PM -0500, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote: > > I guess the question becomes, why do you *want* to run Red Hat 8.0 > on a laptop when it clearly wasn't designed for it. Personally, I > would go with an older version of Red Hat that might be more suited > for that machine.

RE: Redhat 8 Install on Old Laptop (Problem)

2003-01-10 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
27;t fear the penguin. .^. /V\ /( )\ ^^-^^ He's here to help. - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Cliff Wells Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 3:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Redhat 8 Install on Old Lapt

Re: Redhat 8 Install on Old Laptop (Problem)

2003-01-10 Thread Cliff Wells
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 11:24, Ian P. Thomas wrote: > On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 11:02, Alex wrote: > > I recently tried to install Redhat 8 on an old Pentium-75 Laptop with > > 24MB of RAM (its actually a TI Travelmate 5300). > > I recently installed RH 8.0 text install, on an eMachine with 32 MB

Re: Redhat 8 Install on Old Laptop (Problem)

2003-01-10 Thread Kent Borg
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 02:24:51PM -0500, Ian P. Thomas wrote: > I recently installed RH 8.0 text install, on an eMachine with > 32 MB of RAM. I was just talking to a co-worker who recently installed RH 8.0 on a 32 MB notebook. He had to do a text install, but it worked. When he fired up X

Re: Redhat 8 Install on Old Laptop (Problem)

2003-01-10 Thread Alexis MOREAU
--- "Ian P. Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 11:02, Alex wrote: > > I recently tried to install Redhat 8 on an old > Pentium-75 Laptop with > > 24MB of RAM (its actually a TI Travelmate 5300). > > > > Since I don't have the CDROM, I copied all the ISO > files to 10GB

Re: Redhat 8 Install on Old Laptop (Problem)

2003-01-10 Thread Ian P. Thomas
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 11:02, Alex wrote: > I recently tried to install Redhat 8 on an old Pentium-75 Laptop with > 24MB of RAM (its actually a TI Travelmate 5300). > > Since I don't have the CDROM, I copied all the ISO files to 10GB > harddrive (of which at least 8GB should be accessible) and did

Re: Redhat 8 Install on Old Laptop (Problem)

2003-01-10 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:02:10AM -0600, Alex wrote: > I recently tried to install Redhat 8 on an old Pentium-75 Laptop with > 24MB of RAM (its actually a TI Travelmate 5300). > > I guess I could use a different distribution, but I really like > RedHat... Is there a way to make this work? Check

Re: Redhat 8 Install on Old Laptop (Problem)

2003-01-10 Thread Cliff Wells
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 08:02, Alex wrote: > I recently tried to install Redhat 8 on an old Pentium-75 Laptop with > 24MB of RAM (its actually a TI Travelmate 5300). > Does a TEXT based install of RedHat really require more than 24MB of > Ram? Yep. I think 32MB has been required since 7.x. -- Cl

Redhat 8 Install on Old Laptop (Problem)

2003-01-10 Thread Alex
I recently tried to install Redhat 8 on an old Pentium-75 Laptop with 24MB of RAM (its actually a TI Travelmate 5300). Since I don't have the CDROM, I copied all the ISO files to 10GB harddrive (of which at least 8GB should be accessible) and did a HardDrive install. Everything seemed to be worki