[Techtalk] RH 7.2 on a 486 with 20MB of RAM

[Caitlyn Martin]

Hi, Telsa,
> 
> I believe Alan has RH 7.2 on a 20Mb 486 (given the amount of memory 
> the installer likes, I am not quite sure how, mind you) and that ext3
> is quite happy.

Would you mind asking him how?  My most ancient laptop (palmtop?) is a
Toshiba Libretto 20CTA (circa 1996) with a 75MHz 486 processor and 16MB
of RAM.  I would really like to upgrade it, and was going to use Vector
Linux (2.4.3 kernel) and the just upgrade and patch the heck out of it
to make it secure.  RH 7.2 would be much easier, especially as I have
the errata burned to CD already.  (We're still in the primitive world of
dial-up connections at home, so downloading errata is a pain.)

I know well enough how to strip RH 7.2 down for low resource machines. 
That isn't hard, but the installer does want 32MB of RAM.  Of course, he
could have hacked the installer, right?  I do remember *who* Alan is :)

Thanks bunches,
Caity