[Rule-list] rule tested on PC 14

[hairylarry at deltaboogie.com]

Hi,

PC 14 is a Pentium MMX 166, 32M, 540M hd.

Installs Red Hat Linux 7.2 fine from CheapByte CDs onto larger hard 
drive. It runs KDE and Konqueror. It's Ok. A lot of disk thrashing. Not 
really very fast. But usable.

These tests were done with the 540 Meg Seagate. I used boot.img 
and v0.7.0 update disk for these tests.

This size hard drive would not autopartition. I used fdisk to set up two 
partitions. 450 Meg for /. The rest for swap.

None of the configurations would fit in 450 Meg. I used custom. I 
selected only network support, dial-up support, and Internet/Web.

The custom installer is real nice and shows how many megs for the 
selected configuration. Printing Support is over 100 megs. Most 
people will want to print even though I rarely do. Almost any 
configuration with Printing Support would eat the whole drive.

Maybe there is a way to install support for a printer from the CD and 
not take 100 Megs. ???

And then it installed. And I was on the net. Over my LAN. I pinged 
my gateway. I pinged out.

I tried lynx. No lynx! I tried links. I was browsing the net.

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Now the bad news. I physically removed 16 Meg of RAM. Now PC 14 
has only 16 meg. 

I boot. It asks for the update disk. It tells me I don't have enough ram 
to install. When I go OK it resets.

Is there something else I should try here?

Thanks,

Hairy Larry

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