installing linux

[Janina Sajka]

I did an installation of Debian using the somewhat older installation
disks available at the Speakup ftp site on a Pentium II/200 which has 32
megs. I don't specifically know what the minimum RAM requirement is, but
you may want to try the recently announced Debian installer on your
system. The older one I used installed the 2.4.17 kernel, but a current
Debian installer was just announced last week.

The Debian approach should be particularly useful as it installs a
minimal system first and then allows you to pick and choose what to add.

Vortek, Eater Of Souls! writes:
> From: "Vortek, Eater Of Souls!" <vortek at the-bofh.com>
> 
> Hello everyone,
> I believe this question has been asked before, and therefore, I
> apologise for asking again.
> I'm wondering about alternative ways of installing linux.
> I heard someone talking about installing over a serial connection, and
> also heard about installing over a telnet connection.
> I'm wondering which of these is possible, and with which distrobutions.
> I have a pentium 166 with 16mb of ram, so any newer Redhat releases are
> probably out, unless you can force it to install on a system that the
> installer doesn't like.
> I've heard that newer Redhat distros refuse to install on anything with
> less than 64mb of RAM.
> Any help would be greatly appriciated.
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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