If that is an older machine with that little RAM, it will probably be more expensive to jack it up than it would be for a newer machine.  I tried to go that route this past year and the cost of jacking up RAM on an older box was just prohibitive.

I just got a Lenovo IdeaPad that came with 1GB of RAM and adding another gig is twelve bucks.   250GB hard drive and it had Windows 7 "Starter Edition" on it which I didn't even allow to boot up and immediately put Fedora 15 on that puppy.  Sweet.  With LXDE.  



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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:23:31 -0400
From: "Ken Jones" <kjones@ziplink.net>
Subject: [Wlug] Either  legitimately confused or early onset....
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I have successfully installed Fedora 6 Core.  I included 'programming' services.  It said that it would install SAMBA.  It did not.  System Services mentions the need for xinetd.  'Locate' finds 'xinetd' but it does not seem to run.  smbd  and nmbd are nowhere to be found.   Sigh.....

 My machine only has 256M ram memory.  The higher numbered FEDORA packages ask for more ram.  I have a 'good' and never before used set of Fedora 6 .iso CD-ROMs.

Red Hat and Fedora have gone their separate ways.

I just found http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Core/6/html/Installation_Guide/index.html.

Looks promising.  Little did I know how much has changed.....  Constructive suggestions would be appreciated.  Maybe I should jump to CORE 13 or so......

Ken Jones (the elder)
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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:45:58 -0400
From: "John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org>
Subject: Re: [Wlug] Either  legitimately confused or early onset....
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Ken> I have successfully installed Fedora 6 Core.  I included
Ken>  'programming' services.  It said that it would install SAMBA.
Ken>  It did not.  System Services mentions the need for xinetd.
Ken>  'Locate' finds 'xinetd' but it does not seem to run.  smbd and
Ken>  nmbd are nowhere to be found.  Sigh.....  My machine only has
Ken>  256M ram memory.  The higher numbered FEDORA packages ask for
Ken>  more ram.  I have a 'good' and never before used set of Fedora 6
Ken>  .iso CD-ROMs.

It's time to just spring for more memory.  Seriously, it's just not
that expensive.  I just upgraded my kids Athlon (he's only 9) from
768Mb (3 x 256mb) to 2.25 Gb with a pair of 1gb dimms for $23.00
shipped.  Cheap!

Heck, I'd *give* you my two old 256Mb DDR 333 Mhz DIMMS if they'll
work for you.  I certainly won't be using them again.

Ken> Red Hat and Fedora have gone their separate ways.

In what way do you mean?  I don't understand what you're trying to say
here.



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