[RULE] Thread on fedora-devel about dropping i486 support

[Martin Stricker]

"Rodolfo J. Paiz" wrote:
> 
> At 21:19 6/4/2004, Da Worm wrote:
> >I have yet to manage a RULE install on the one machine I wanted most
> >to get going, a Compaq laptop with 8Meg RAM and a 540Meg HD (yeah, I
> >know, I'm not likely to either).
> 
> Why not? I remember seeing someone document a slinky install into 8MB
> of RAM, no? Fuzzy memory.

*searching through old RULE mails*
In the early days of slinky there was reported a successful install in
just 4 MB of RAM. However, the Red Hat kernel (RHL7.2 I think) insisted
on having at least 6 MB. So yes, I think 8 MB is doable.

Best regards,
Martin Stricker
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