[Rule-list] Test: RULE 0.5.3
Arthur J . Yarwood
arthur at fubaby.com
Wed Feb 20 10:24:05 EET 2002
On 2002.02.20 02:17:47 +0000 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?
Yeah I managed to install RH7.0 on my Panasonic laptop with 8meg of
ram. Had to put the disk in another machine to do it though (it
couldn't boot off anything other than the hard drive anyway). I did
also try installing from a dos partition, but that failed due to lack
of ram too.
Arthur
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