SUSE 9.2 Installs With Little RAM
Someone previously mentioned having read that SUSE 9.2 would not install on anything less than 256 MB of RAM. I just wanted to let folks know (who may not) that I have installed it on a box with a measley 192 MB of RAM. The HP Vectras (P-II 450MHz/192MB RAM) will get KDE only. These are a tad slow, but actually handle 9.2 better than I expected. If you're worried about your CPU/RAM capabilities - you can relax. Don -- DC Parris GNU Evangelist http://matheteuo.org/ http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/ "Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anytime anywhere!"
On Tuesday, 2 November 2004 20.17, Don Parris wrote:
Someone previously mentioned having read that SUSE 9.2 would not install on anything less than 256 MB of RAM.
http://www.suse.de/en/private/products/suse_linux/prof/sysreqs.html Minimum 128MB, 256MB recommended It's usually possible to get below even the "minimum" by enabling swap early enough in the installation process
On Tuesday 02 November 2004 02:26 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday, 2 November 2004 20.17, Don Parris wrote:
Someone previously mentioned having read that SUSE 9.2 would not install on anything less than 256 MB of RAM.
http://www.suse.de/en/private/products/suse_linux/prof/sysreqs.html
Minimum 128MB, 256MB recommended
It's usually possible to get below even the "minimum" by enabling swap early enough in the installation process =========
It might also have been talking about the 9.2 Live Eval CD as it won't work with less than 256MB. It told me so when I tried to run it on a machine with less! ;o) Lee
On Tuesday 02 November 2004 20:04, BandiPat wrote:
On Tuesday 02 November 2004 02:26 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday, 2 November 2004 20.17, Don Parris wrote:
Someone previously mentioned having read that SUSE 9.2 would not install on anything less than 256 MB of RAM.
http://www.suse.de/en/private/products/suse_linux/prof/sysreqs.html
Minimum 128MB, 256MB recommended
It's usually possible to get below even the "minimum" by enabling swap early enough in the installation process
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It might also have been talking about the 9.2 Live Eval CD as it won't work with less than 256MB. It told me so when I tried to run it on a machine with less! ;o)
Lee
Well, it spooked me to think I wouldn't be able to install 9.2. I did get pointed to the correct link (I had missed it initially) on the 9.2 pre-release page, that gave 128MB as the minimum. After seeing the post about less than 256 MB, I was a bit nervous - the HP Vectras only have 192 MB at most. I didn't realize that the post could have been referring specifically to the live eval CD. Don -- DC Parris GNU Evangelist http://matheteuo.org/ http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/ "Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anytime anywhere!"
On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 11:17, Don Parris wrote:
Someone previously mentioned having read that SUSE 9.2 would not install on anything less than 256 MB of RAM. I just wanted to let folks know (who may not) that I have installed it on a box with a measley 192 MB of RAM. The HP Vectras (P-II 450MHz/192MB RAM) will get KDE only. These are a tad slow, but actually handle 9.2 better than I expected. If you're worried about your CPU/RAM capabilities - you can relax.
Don -- DC Parris GNU Evangelist http://matheteuo.org/ http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/ "Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anytime anywhere!"
What about Gnome? I am using it because evolution is too slow under KDE
on this PII 350 with 256mb.
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cwsiv
I think the 128MB requirement is for the Yast2 graphical installer. I haven't seen Yast2 graphical installer run automatically on boxen with less than 128mb on 9.1 - I guess it's probably the same thing. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za
Hans du Plooy wrote:
I think the 128MB requirement is for the Yast2 graphical installer. I haven't seen Yast2 graphical installer run automatically on boxen with less than 128mb on 9.1 - I guess it's probably the same thing.
I have a laptop PII-333 with 64M and the graphical installer (9.1) did not start, with a few Meg of swap, it's still slow, especially after a sleep when it suddenly fires off updatedb and is totally unresponsive until that's done. Looks like 9.2 could be a long process. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====
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