Rasmus Plewe wrote:
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 07:53:19AM +0100, jdd wrote:
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky a écrit :
I've successfully installed both Gnome and KDE desktops from the 11.2 RC1 DVD on a 512 MB laptop. The LiveCDs don't really work
I could install on a 256Mb ram computer from the live cd (not going live, of course) and it worked - 2 hours works though :-)
not recommanded, but it didn't work with 11.1
I would suggest to split the requirements into "usable installation",
I like that - a hardware suggestion for a usable installation. We might have to add a little more about _what_ it would be usable for, but still.
requiering at least 1 GB memory, decent CPU, 70GB hard disk (are there any smaller hd's still around, anyway?),
Solid-state disks, yes. They come in sizes down to megabytes.
Then there is the "theoretically absolute minimum installation, using all the tweaks you can get". That would be the 512/256MB installations, probably running out of disk space as soon as the user tries to save his .bash_history, and having no graphical resolution to speak of (why should they? The system is not usable for someone sitting in front of it anyway).
I managed to install 11.1 on a Pentium90 and make it run in only 96Mb - without a GUI it's perfectly usable, but I think the absolute minimum requirements should be just: Pentium CPU, 256Mb RAM (required for installation), 8Gb harddisk space. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help@opensuse.org