🚀 go-pugleaf

On 18 Apr 1996 09:55:09 GMT, Karl Nissen <karl.nissen@auslig.gov.au> wrote:
>
>I recently installed RedHat Linux 2.1 on an older 486 (yes, 2.1 is old, but it was 
>cheap too) that I have and the X installation was really slow (so slow I gave up, 
>estimated time to completion was 4-5 hours). I suspect that the memory that I have 
>(8 megs) is just not enough to do the installation quickly (I was using around 24 
>Megs of swap and the disk seemed to be working fairly hard).
>
>Questions 
>
>a. Am I right about the memory? I have managed to get fwm to work from Slackware 
>in 8 megs, but it is not fast (but then neither is the machine (486DLC40 with 
>ET4000 video (not ET4000W32)).

Yup, definately.  8MB is *not* enough to run X at anything like acceptable speed
_when_you_have_a_large_chunk_of_your_memory_taken_by_2_installation_ramdisks_.

>b. If I am right about the memory what have people used for this installation 
>(and have had good results)?. Is 12 megabytes sufficient or would 16 be better?

Can't say here.  I've only got 8 myself, so I went for the text install.  I
wouldn't like to do the X install in less than 16.

>I like the distribution, and would like to be able to use the X installation and 
>configuration tools. 

Yeah, the X installation would be nice.  I haven't looked too closely, but shouldn't
the configuration tools be useable after installation, if you do a text-based
install first?