Or you can cheat all together with a second box. I have a PII and a PIII the latter has 512mb and different sound and graphics. As I remember SaX2 in init 3 can fix things on the other box after a cheat install. Then root can redetect the NIC etc. Likely its time to buy more DIMM for the PII in any case. CWSIV On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 09:53:12 +0100 Vince Negri <vnegri@asl-electronics.co.uk> writes:

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According to the web site 128 required, 256 recommended.

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And anyone determined enough can get it running in 64.

Yes, the typical issue is that the installer is memory-hungry (particularly when resolving dependencies between the packages) so that running the install in low RAM takes ages (frenzied swapping) or fails altogether. But I have set up more than one system where I've borrowed extra RAM from another machine purely for the installation, then after the installation set the machine to boot to runlevel 3 and return it to 64MB or whatever.

It may even be possible to creatively abuse the "install into directory" feature to set up a hard disk in advance, then put it into the low RAM machine and use the rescue disk to fix up the bootloader. All good clean fun!

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