[KLUG Members] Failed network install?

[Bryan-TheBS-Smith]

Kevin DeGraaf wrote:
> I'm curious as to why 32 MB would be insufficient for a network
> installation of Linux.  This past semester, a friend and I managed to
> stage a bunch of 486-66's with 8 MB of RAM via NFS... granted, that was
> using Slackware, but...

IMHO, RedHat and Mandrake are _moronic_ in requiring so much
memory.  There is just no reason for it.  They should at least do
what Slackware does, activate swap early in the install process.

I think you can still install RedHat in under the 48MB RAM
recommended by using the "text" option.  Yeah, I just installed 7.1
on such a system the other day.

-- TheBS

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