RE: [Rule-list] Lower bound for text install

[Taylor, ForrestX]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wade Hampton [mailto:address@hidden
> 
> >
> > I was the one who corrected him, and I thought that I 
> brought that up during
> > the original discussion.  If not, I apologize.  The 17M is 
> the hard coded
> > limit that I found in isys.h (MIN_RAM 17000).  I dropped 
> this to 6000, and
> > it worked with 12M, but not 8M (using the original discs 
> and two updated
> > anaconda floppies).
> 
> 17M is a strange number.  16M is a common older value for memory
> and one would think they would have hard coded it to 15.5 or so, not
> just over 16M.  I wonder if RH encountered some issues with 16M
> installs and changed this to 17M to prevent them from occurring,
> making the real effective minimum something like 20M or 24M?
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Wade Hampton

That is my guess, although I modified anaconda, and lowered the limit to
6000 (8MB), and it worked with 12M.  Perhaps they just didn't want to
support older systems which are more likely to have hardware failures (IMHO)
than software failures.

Forrest