Chad Perrin wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
>
>> Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Chad Perrin wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>> Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>>>
>>
>>
>>>>> Starting with Red Hat CL4 (Fedora Core 2-4/RHEL 4), Red Hat includes
>>>>> XFCE as a standard GUI option. Shortly after Fedora Core 2 was
>>>>> released, Alan Cox boasted he was running Fedora Core 2 on a
>>>>> 225MHz IDT WinChip2 with 48MB of RAM.
>>>>
>>
>>
>>>> Last I checked, I seem to remember seeing some outrageously high
>>>> RAM requirements for Fedora installation. Even the text-based
>>>> install was listed in at least one location as requiring something
>>>> like 96MB of RAM. If that's an accurate representation of the
>>>> requirements, I'd like to know how he shoehorned Fedora into a
>>>> system with only 48MB of RAM.
>>>
>>
>>
>>> Red Hat purposely overstates for the "worst possibility."
>>> Even 24MB is definitely doable if swap is created.
>>
>>
>>
>> He may have removed the hard drive and done the install on a
>> different machine. I've done that.
>>
>
> That was my first thought. I didn't want to bias the answers by
> suggesting it myself, though.
There might be some bypass around the installer. windows xp checks to
see if you have at least 128 megs of ram but there is a way of still
running setup minus the ram check so that might of been the answer.
Fedora might have some type of do not check switch in it too.
or he put some more ram in for the install from a different machine.
>
> --
> Chad
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