Robert Snyder wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
>
>> Eben King wrote:
>>
>>> Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Chad Perrin wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>
That would make sense for the graphical installer, but I'm not sure
that's really relevant for the text installer.
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