So... I guess the consensus is that even if I were to go to the trouble of using a Linux rescue disk such as tomsrtbt to format the HD in advance, complete w/ swap space and what not, it *still* might not fit? Well, guess I'll be using something like Debian or Slackware on that box! Or... anyone know if something like Gentoo that compiles stuff specifically for the hardware you install it on would work? I mean, this is a spare test box setting there w/ no other real useful purpose, as I can do most everything I need from my eMac running OS X 10.2.3 and Apple's X11.app, so I can afford to leave it sit to bake compiling stuff for days on end if need be. TIA, Monte -----Original Message----- From: Derek Fountain [mailto:derekfountain@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 2:33 AM To: SuSE English Subject: Re: [SLE] help installing 8.1 on Pc with 32Mg of RAM

You need to partition the hard drive before beginning the install and create a linux swap partition. YAST should be asking you where the swap partition is when it tells you that there is not enough memory. I tried an install on a 150Mhz Pentium with 36 Meg ram and couldn't do it.

I tried installing on a 166mhz Pentinum with 64MB RAM and it couldn't do that either. At the point it tells you to activate swap, you can't. If you don't have a swap partition already on the disk, you're stuffed. It doesn't even leave you in a position to create one (i.e. a shell with fdisk, mkswap, swapon, etc). As I was working on a CD-less machine, I ended up downloading a Linux-on-a-floppy-disk distro and setting the hard disk up with that. I was not impressed, but SuSE is clearly heading away from low end machine support these days, so I shouldn't have been surprised. -- Microsoft Palladium: "Where the hell do you think YOU'RE going today?" -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com