Hi, ** I am also getting this error on a couple of 'low spec' machines (P90, 8Mb ** Ram), I am putting it down to lack of memory, because it does not happen if ** I double the memory. ** ** I go around it but putting 64Mb ram in the machine, installing and setting ** the box up, and then removing the memory. Bad work around, but it works... SuSE is a sod on low mem systems. It won't install via FTP on my 16Mb P60 firewall at all. YaST also struggles a tad. I'd say that 32M is probably a good minimum as 8-16Mb makes it painful and causes ppp to dump all the time in my experience. My normal workstation has 256M of RAM in it and that stil swaps sometimes :-P ----------------------------------------------------------- Chris Smith IS Dept - Raytheon Systems Limited [chris.smith@raytheon.co.uk] +44 1279 407 103 =========================================================== -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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** I am also getting this error on a couple of 'low spec' machines (P90, 8Mb ** Ram), I am putting it down to lack of memory, because it does not happen if ** I double the memory. ** ** I go around it but putting 64Mb ram in the machine, installing and setting ** the box up, and then removing the memory. Bad work around, but it works...
SuSE is a sod on low mem systems. It won't install via FTP on my 16Mb P60 firewall at all. YaST also struggles a tad. I'd say that 32M is probably a good minimum as 8-16Mb makes it painful and causes ppp to dump all the time in my experience. My normal workstation has 256M of RAM in it and that stil swaps sometimes :-P
Having been able to install on a 486DX??? machine with 8MB, with the installation over NFS from another SuSE box on a LAN, I can say that it is all achievable with a degree of patience. It all seems much more painful while watching... :-) A minimal setup takes about 40 minutes but as it runs unattended, no big deal. Go for a meal break. Just be sure to set up swap manually at the beginning. A 16MB system with similar CPU (P90 perhaps) installed in about 15 minutes off the same "server". More memory would help; there's a low-memory thrashing problem for which a patch was posted here recently. The RPM should be available soon according to the announcement. If you're trying to do this over ppp, you should expect a slightly longer installation time. The memory-thrashing may have come into play there. -- Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning Perth, Western Australia -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, you wrote:
Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk tapped away at the keyboard with:
** I am also getting this error on a couple of 'low spec' machines (P90, 8Mb ** Ram), I am putting it down to lack of memory, because it does not happen if ** I double the memory. ** ** I go around it but putting 64Mb ram in the machine, installing and setting ** the box up, and then removing the memory. Bad work around, but it works...
SuSE is a sod on low mem systems. It won't install via FTP on my 16Mb P60 firewall at all. YaST also struggles a tad. I'd say that 32M is probably a good minimum as 8-16Mb makes it painful and causes ppp to dump all the time in my experience. My normal workstation has 256M of RAM in it and that stil swaps sometimes :-P
Having been able to install on a 486DX??? machine with 8MB, with the installation over NFS from another SuSE box on a LAN, I can say that it is all achievable with a degree of patience. It all seems much more painful while watching... :-)
A minimal setup takes about 40 minutes but as it runs unattended, no big deal. Go for a meal break. Just be sure to set up swap manually at the beginning. A 16MB system with similar CPU (P90 perhaps) installed in about 15 minutes off the same "server".
More memory would help; there's a low-memory thrashing problem for which a patch was posted here recently. The RPM should be available soon according to the announcement.
If you're trying to do this over ppp, you should expect a slightly longer installation time. The memory-thrashing may have come into play there.
-- Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning Perth, Western Australia
Thanks to all. I'm searching for some cheap/free memory for this thing now. But Bernd, my problem wasn't the time factor. The installs of additional (those not on the cd's) rpm's came to a screeching halt with an error. I tried my work-around this a.m. of unzipping on my main box then transfering the still tarred file to the firewall. It then expanded just fine. What I don't understand is why the rpm's from the suse cd's don't have any trouble expanding, but those I download do?! -- Tim http://ridgeriders.org -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 12:56:36PM -0400, Tim Shann wrote:
Thanks to all. I'm searching for some cheap/free memory for this thing now. But Bernd, my problem wasn't the time factor. The installs of additional (those not on the cd's) rpm's came to a screeching halt with an error. I tried my work-around this a.m. of unzipping on my main box then transfering the still tarred file to the firewall. It then expanded just fine.
What I don't understand is why the rpm's from the suse cd's don't have any trouble expanding, but those I download do?!
Is it possible that when you download them, you're doing an ASCII mode transfer instead of BINary? -- Brad Shelton On Line Exchange http://online-isp.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
From: Tim Shann [mailto:tajcs@earthlink.net]
Hi,
SuSE is a sod on low mem systems. It won't install via FTP on my 16Mb P60 firewall at all.
What I don't understand is why the rpm's from the suse cd's don't have any trouble expanding, but those I download do?!
I have problems with the files on the CD with my P90 8Mb box, it tends to files over 0.5Mb, that make Yast barf when decompressing. More memory sorts it out. Cheers Phil -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk tapped away at the keyboard with:
** I am also getting this error on a couple of 'low spec' machines (P90, 8Mb ** Ram), I am putting it down to lack of memory, because it does not happen if ** I double the memory. ** ** I go around it but putting 64Mb ram in the machine, installing and setting ** the box up, and then removing the memory. Bad work around, but it works...
SuSE is a sod on low mem systems. It won't install via FTP on my 16Mb P60 firewall at all. YaST also struggles a tad. I'd say that 32M is probably a good minimum as 8-16Mb makes it
and causes ppp to dump all the time in my experience. My normal workstation has 256M of RAM in it and that stil swaps sometimes :-P
Having been able to install on a 486DX??? machine with 8MB, with the installation over NFS from another SuSE box on a LAN, I can say that it is all achievable with a degree of patience. It all seems much more painful while watching... :-)
A minimal setup takes about 40 minutes but as it runs unattended, no big deal. Go for a meal break. Just be sure to set up swap manually at the beginning. A 16MB system with similar CPU (P90
installed in about 15 minutes off the same "server".
More memory would help; there's a low-memory thrashing
----- Original Message -----
From: Bernd Felsche
which a patch was posted here recently. The RPM should be available soon according to the announcement.
If you're trying to do this over ppp, you should expect a slightly longer installation time. The memory-thrashing may have come into play there.
-- Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning Perth, Western Australia
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bernie＠innovative.iinet.net.au -
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tajcs＠earthlink.net