Bill Nottingham wrote:
>
> Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz (jjgomez@sip.ucm.es) said:
> > I am installing RH 6.1 on a Compaq Contura 410C (RAM 8Mb, HD 500 Mb)
> > with external cdrom Trillium CD/P 525 (16x).
> >
> > I am using paride drivers and boot disk for RH 6.1.
> >
> > The cdrom seems to be detected. But after detection,
> > and three or five minutes, I get a system abort message whose
> > text refers to a Signal 7 event, and informing that the system
> > can be restarted safely.
>
> You don't have enough RAM.
>
> Bill
>
How much RAM does Linux require??? Geez, I thought Linux could run just
fine on a 486. And most 486s have little RAM (4-32). What about a swap
file? Shouldn't it let you install anyway? This is Linux!
BTW, I had this problem on my friend's 8MB RAM 486, although I wasn't
sure of the problem at the time.
- Greg
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