[Rule-list] Test: RULE 0.5.3

[Bryon Gill]

I humbly second the request for a system that will work with only 8 megs
of memory.  I recently acquired an Epson laptop (who knew they made
laptops?!) with a 486 processor and 8 megs ram.  Memory upgrades would
cost more than the laptop itself, but I would love to run rh7.2 on it
since that's what I have on all my other boxen.

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Bryon Gill (aka abe ferlman)


On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Martin Stricker wrote:

> So I finally finished downloading 0.5.3, but had not yet the time to get
> 0.6.0, but I wanted to test, so here it goes...
>
> Hardware: 166 MHz Pentium I MMX, 160 MB RAM, 2.4 GB IDE harddisk, 10x
> CD-ROM drive, Matrox Mystique 4 MB RAM graphics.
>
> linux mem=8M failed! Not enough memory! *grumble* Today I saw on
> enigma-list a thread where someone got RHL 7.2 working on his 8 MB 386
> laptop (after installing on a different machine and switching disks). So
> RULE *should* support 8 MB installs! Devon, could you please throw out
> that restriction completely? I'll then test the install descending 1 MB
> each time so we can find out how much memory *is* necessary.
>
> linux mem=12M worked fine. I chose German language, and found the "Wenig
> Speicher" install option. Nice touch, devon, thanks! After arguing with
> fdisk (it wouldn't put my swap at the beginning of the disk where it's
> faster, but then that isn't fdisk but some frontend (this actually is my
> very first install of RHL 7.2 ;-) )) the install went smooth, but I
> selected only the base install, nothing else.
>
> I chose 128 MB of swap.
>
> Weird enough, this turns up unresolved dependencies: up2date is whining
> for python, rpm-python, python-xmlrpc, gnupg and rhn-register, and then
> python for gmp. That's not good, the base install as well as any of the
> additional options should satisfy all their dependencies. Also since
> up2date is network-based it should be included in one of the additional
> network options rather than in the base install. But maybe 0.6.0 fixes
> that, too.
>
> I chose to install the additional packages, too. The install started,
> the estimated time grew ad grew, and finally got up to 23:43 min.
> Altogether the install took 38 minutes. The system booted flawlessly
> into linux mem=12M.
>
> I'll do more testing with 0.6.0 tomorrow (actually, today, it's 3 AM
> already, yawn). Devon, if you could remove the memory check completely
> I'll try how low I can go (with 128 MB swap first, later I'll decrease
> swap, too). I'll take half an hour without doing *anything* visible as a
> failure (don't have that much time testing). Oh, and could you put your
> first ISO up again, I would like to get it, too (will take 2 days,
> though). I'm always collecting all the versions. BTW, has someone boxed
> sets to sell of RHL 6.1, 6.2 or 5.2 and lower? I'd like to get them,
> too...
>
> Excellent job, Devon!
>
> Best regards,
> Martin Stricker
> --
> Homepage: http://www.martin-stricker.de/
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