On 12/05/2009 11:59 AM, Larry Stotler wrote:
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Rob OpenSuSE
wrote: If I took out a pentium MMX based 8MiB RAM machine, do you think openSUSE 11.2 should just work on it? If not why is your old hardware worthy and mine not?
Of course not. 8MB was a super bare minimum even 10 years ago. However, I Pentium II/II with 512MB RAM should work properly. Even some of those machines can't support 512MB. I have a Thinkpad X21 P3/700 that maxes are 384. I also had a Pentium Pro Server that had 4GB RAM and dual procs years ago. A 200Mhz PPro is still too slow for most things.
According to a report in the openSUSE Forums, 11.2 can be installed from the LiveCD on an i686 machine as long as swap is available. The installation was slow, but it worked. From my own experience with an i586-class machine, you can do a NET install with 256 MB as long as you select "text only" at boot time. I also have an i586 machine with 128 MB. The only way to install 11.2 is to take its disk to another machine. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org