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Using a machine with 8megs of RAM, and a supplemental install (PCMCIA support + installing from remote image), the floppy drive churns endlessly after starting disk druid or fdisk. It's a notebook, else I'd just borrow some memory or put in a CD-ROM for the duration of the install. Though the box says "16MB recommended", I didn't see any >8MB required notices in either the book or on the box. It's not a bad floppy or drive, if you browse the results of: http://search.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?ST=PS&defaultOp=AND&DB S=1&format=threaded&maxhits=100&QRY=%28+redhat+%7C+rh5*+%29+ %26+floppy+%26+install*+%26+%28+fdisk+%7C+druid+%29+%26+%28+ 486*+%7C+laptop+%7C+8m+%7C+8mb+%7C+8+%7C+8meg*+%7C+notebook+ %29+%26+supp*&groups=comp*linux*&authors=&subjects=&fromdate =&todate=&showsort=score ... and you'll see several similar complaints. I couldn't find a workaround or fix in the documentation, so I'm posting this. cheers, mike
This is unfortunately a known problem with the 5.2 installer and 8 megs of ram. We are working to fix this for the next release.