[ILUG] Installation Troubles

John McCormac jmcc at hackwatch.com
Sun Jun 13 01:17:29 IST 1999


Alan Number wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Im installing redhat 5.0
> on a 486 514mb hard disk  and 3 mb's of RAM
> "out of memoryVFS : Cannot open root device 08:05

> Would it be as i only have 3 megs of RAM?

Yes. The minimum would be about 4 MB. There is a possibility of using a
cut down kernel though there will be a lot of swapping to to disk.

Regards...jmcc
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