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Hello Everyone, I've recently picked up a cheap 486, and decided to install RedHat 6.0 on it. The problem is it has a 400 MB hard disk, so I have to be (somewhat) space conscious. It also has 16 megs ram, so i must be memory conscious too. Install went fine, but GNOME hung the machine. It was constantly writing to/from the swap space (i set it to 32MB, is this okay), and I think there is too much stuff in the kernel, and too many daemons running. It wouldn't acknowledge anything else I typed, including CTRL-ALT-BKSP and CTRL-ALT-F2, so I had no option but to hit the power button!!! I wanted to recompile the kernel, but I was shocked when neither make, nor gcc, nor even the kernel source was installed on the system! I didn't now which of these options during the Redhat install was needed. Since I was low on space, and it took a few tries to trim the install, I had to skip stuff, like C/C++ development, and kernel development. I don't know if these options are what installs gcc or the kernel source. Anyhow, after looking through the RPM directory, I was able to install make, and also install the kernel source. However, I still don't have gcc running. Where is this RPM? what is it called? i skimmed over the 600-odd RPMS, and I didn't see something that would be related to gcc (Well, there was EGCS, but I want gcc). Could someone please help me out? Thanks. - wass ps - if Redhat reps read this list, a good idea is to list how much disk space the various install options use, I had no idea when I was installing the packages. - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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