On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > M-Trade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : Hello, > : > : Has anyone had any success installing 5.1 release on a 486 > : w/ 8MB RAM? I can't install. > : > : avail memory = (245760) 0 MB > : > : Is this expected behavior? > > Yes. The generic kernel is a big fat pigdog. you might be able to > cope with a stripped down kernel, but sysinstall will dump core unless > you sneak in early in the process and add more swap. you really need > at least 16MB if not 24MB of RAM to install 5 Last week I installed a Pentium 90 with 16 MB - 5.1 couldn't even start the installation menu, 4.8 went well without any problems or special configuration.
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