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by pshoaf

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I would like to be able to install recent versions of RedHat onto machines that do not meet the current installation requirements (ie 16+Meg of RAM). How do I generate a bootable floppy or CD (prefer CD) on which I have utilities such as fdisk, fsck, etc. to setup Linux from a command line. I have a need for several extremely lowend servers with minimal software installed, and have several machines that fit the bill, but can not run from current install disks.

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by zeus_ru

you can boot from the install cdrom, run the installation in tex mode and pick up only the packages you need.

by pshoaf

Install from cd-rom does not work (6.0 - 7.0) if there is not more than 16M of RAM installed

by paulo.sedrez

You may want to take a look at RUST (http://www.rusthq.com). It allows you to create an sandboxed, chrooted installation in another machine.

You may also be interested in SuperRescue (http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/superrescue/), a bootable CD towith a lot of tools. Its software runs from the CD, so the memory requirements should be low (version 2 is a 700MB CD, includes even KDE!, but requires 24MB; version 1 is smaller).

With both, you can create a installation and later copy it (from network?) to your machines.

It that is not enough, you should use another distribution, like Slackware, whose installation runs (or used to run) on 8MB machines.

--Sedrez

by pshoaf

Possible solution. But was looking for RedHat Solution to maintain uniformity across machines.

by paulo.sedrez

You may want to take a look at RUST (http://www.rusthq.com). It allows you to create an sandboxed, chrooted installation in another machine.

You may also be interested in SuperRescue (http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/superrescue/), a bootable CD towith a lot of tools. Its software runs from the CD, so the memory requirements should be low (version 2 is a 700MB CD, includes even KDE!, but requires 24MB; version 1 is smaller).

With both, you can create a installation and later copy it (from network?) to your machines.

It that is not enough, you should use another distribution, like Slackware, whose installation runs (or used to run) on 8MB machines.

--Sedrez

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