Re: [edlug] Thursday? Holyrood?

[Craig Perry <edlug@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

I remember a while back (circa redhat 7.x i think) the redhat installer 
had near enough double the requirements of memory as the standard redhat 
base system it was installing, there was a project back then that aimed 
to make the installer less resource hungry, so it could be possible...

Removing modules from the kernel would limit memory usage, but only by a 
very small (as in not really worthwhile) amount. Anyway the idea of a 
modular kernel is not to load the modules you dont need so there 
probably wont be much you could trim out of it, because only the stuff 
you need has been loaded.

As your talking about installing, i'm assuming the system has a hard 
drive. Would it not be possible to use a swap partition during the install?

   swapon /dev/hda2 or whatever

I appreciate the HD will probably be in the region of 100-500Mb but even 
that should be 'do-able'.

HTH

Regards,
Craig

Catriona & Anand wrote:

> How much RAM did/does the 486 have? I suspect that my problems at the 
> ludicrously low end of the spectrum are with the installer running out of 
> RAM. Am I right in thinking that the running system would need less RAM than 
> the installer? Subsidiary question, could I limit the RAM used by the 
> installer simply by leaving out the kernel modules which my hardware does not 
> need?
>
> Anand
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