Hi,
At my work we have a few Debian machines, that we want to switch to Suse. For this I'm trying to get a network install with network-boot to work. This seems to work until YAST kicks in, and comes up with an "need more memory" error. Checking the faq I found that Yast needs only 96Mb, and all machines have 128Mb RAM. So I thought it should work. Where am I going wrong ? Does anyone have an idea how to fix this problem (without adding more RAM) :-)
You don't mention which version of SuSE but the newer ones (I think starting with 9.1) require 128Mb of ram to use YaST gui.
You're right, forgot to mention that. It's 9.2 :-) But even with text install, it's still complaining... Adding more RAM does work, but just want to get it to work with the 128Mb. Any options I could try ? Harmen
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 15:07 +0200, Harmen Schaap wrote:
Hi,
You don't mention which version of SuSE but the newer ones (I think starting with 9.1) require 128Mb of ram to use YaST gui.
You're right, forgot to mention that. It's 9.2 :-) But even with text install, it's still complaining... Adding more RAM does work, but just want to get it to work with the 128Mb. Any options I could try ?
Add extra ram, install, remove extra ram. Or setup a swap partition before the install. You could do this using the "rescue" mode of the install procedure. Boot to the DVD, select rescue instead of install. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
Harmen Schaap wrote:
You're right, forgot to mention that. It's 9.2 :-) But even with text install, it's still complaining... Adding more RAM does work, but just want to get it to work with the 128Mb. Any options I could try ?
Even if though it does work, you'll find 128M isn't enough to run it properly, with KDE or Gnome.
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 03:07:22PM +0200, Harmen Schaap wrote:
You're right, forgot to mention that. It's 9.2 :-) But even with text install, it's still complaining... Adding more RAM does work, but just want to get it to work with the 128Mb. Any options I could try ?
Use one of the extra consoles to create and enable a swap partition? -- David Smith Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com STMicroelectronics Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk Bristol, England GPG Key: 0xF13192F2
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David SMITH
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Harmen Schaap
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James Knott
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Ken Schneider