The only reason I can think that a user with less than 42 meg ram would 
install mandrake would be as a thin client. If that is the case, could the 
installer not be shrunk enough to do the bare necessary for a thin client.

To my mind the needs would be:
To recognize and install for the hardware
networking
X
rdesktop/citrix client /rfbdrake/vnc

a nice touch would be to boot to a menu with the choice to use local X 
server/vnc, or use rdesktop/citrix to a windows terminal server, these items 
could be defined during install, including other such things as local font 
servers, nas servers and installation of nas, etc.

I think Mandrake would make an excellent X terminal server for desktops, why 
not take the extra step to make building thin clients easier using Mandrake's 
excellent installer.... I can see a mdk enhancement of ltsp mixed with mosix 
clustering for the server.


On Monday 01 April 2002 11:41 am, you wrote:
> "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 1. The installer considers 48MB of memory to be "low".  As such, I
> >    used the "text" install mode as it suggested.  The installer should
> >    not require more memory than a system can sufficiently run with.
>
> Yes, the installer somewhat requires more memory than what a
> "minimal" system can have to run a (console only) Mandrake
> distro. It sucks but I think we can't change that so easily. And
> normally a text install should be possible with 32MB of memory
> (though the text install is vastly more bugged than the graphical
> install).

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