Gustav,
How long did it take to do the install? And what speed of disk
did you have? Both /tmp and my swap are destined for the very slow,
small Quantum IDE drive (not even EIDE). My problem seemed to be thrashing;
it simply sat there during the "Installing RPMs" phase thrashing the HD
like a Schnauzer with a rat....
Bill Ward
-----Original Message-----
From: Gustav Schaffter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 3:08 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Network Installs on a low memory 486.... how do I do it?
Ward,
FYI, I did an ftp install of RH6.2 on a 486 with 16MB of RAM just a few
days ago. Not one hiccup.
OTOH, the one difference I see is that I had just one IDE disk on the
single IDE controller. I choose ftp since I've not foreseen to get a
CD-ROM for this PC at all.
Regards
Gustav
Ward William E PHDN wrote:
<snip>
> It appears that perhaps 16 would be enough, if I was
> using the CDROM... but not for the FTP install. Why would the FTP install
> take so much more RAM? Sure, networking added SOME overhead, but that
seems
> high. And what is the minimum RAM that is required to do an FTP install?
>
> I'll give a look at the RAM, though, just to be sure.
>
> Bill Ward
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