[102037] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Minimum hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Tue Dec 1 02:53:21 1998
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 02:48:21 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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L C Nagy wrote:
> The books say that the version of Redhat Linux I bought can be installed
> on a 386 with 8MB RAM and 80MB HD (without X Windows, of course).
> However, my searches of the archives have not turned up information on
> how to do that. I get stuck on the install because, apparently, I need
> to disable the ramdisk option. Any help or suggestions would be much
> appreciated.
You can definitely install on a 386 though. The RH kernels will boot and run
on 386,486,... plus clones. But nothing older than a 386.
It is possible to compile a kernel that requires 486 and up, or 586 and up.
But the kernels in the rpms are happy with 386.
>
>
> Regards,
> L.C. Nagy
> LCNagy@juno.com
>
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