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

[James]

I could see how 17meg could be reached, I've seen notebooks that share ram
for video and sound.  1 meg for sound 2 megs for video 20 megs total....
17megs of ram for the CPU.  Don't know but being a swap meet junky I see
lots of oddball stuff.  Fortunately I resist the urge to buy.  Usually.
*grin*

James


On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:48:56 -0500
Devon <address@hidden> wrote:

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> On Thursday 21 February 2002 11:59 am, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
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> > 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).
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> The hard coded limit is MIN_RAM 17000, true.
> The stock installer will not run in under 19M of RAM however.
> It runs with mem=19M, but fails at mem=18M
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