Minimum Specs for Smoothwall

Peter Barker pbarker at barker.dropbear.id.au
Sun Dec 2 12:00:36 EST 2001


On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Sam Couter wrote:

> Except that he couldn't upgrade it, because RPM [like I said, it was a
> while ago...] wanted more than 8Mb of RAM to unpack the new software.

I think it's quite sad seeing redhat refusing to install on 8mb. If you
are willing to pare the distribution down, the advantages of rpm still
hold. I think the main problem is that their installer will no longer run
in 8mb...

Oh well.

Yours,
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