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RE: [LUG] Red Hat vs Debian - the big fight!



Quoting Pete Hatton <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Myself and Jon, got Redhat 6.2 to install and run on a 486 with 8megs. 
> Ok a lot of things got cut out, but it was only acting as a gateway box
> for the network invloved.  Could you not install it straight from the CD?

I had to do a network install as I've no cd drive for the laptop.

This is what really annoyed me.  I *know* I could get a system working in that
amount of memory.  What buisness has the installer telling me otherwise?

I've had systems running in 8 mg a year or so ago - why have they suddenly upped
the requirements?  its daft!

Alex
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