Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.20001109071155.00fecb2c@popd.ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 07:11:55 +0000 From: Samy Elashmawy Subject: Re: [SLE] FTP update with exactly 32Mb RAM? Well, you could take the drive out , place it in another chassis and load linux on it , or take a cdrom from another machine , install it , reboot , tweak and then remove the cdrom , and use nfs later. It doesent take long to remove and replace the cdrom. I now keep and old ide cdrom on hand for this type of install. Got tired of ripping one out and putting it back. I just pop the cover off , plug in the cdrom , reboot and install. At 02:48 PM 11/9/2000 +0100, Lenz Grimmer wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Tobias Kuipers wrote:

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My SuSE 6.3 broke down recently, and all I could do was boot from floppy. Because some files were corrupted I decided to do an update of SuSE. The machine I'm doing this on doesn't have a CD player, so I went for the FTP update option.

When I chose ftp install and gave the necessary details of the ftp server the update/install stopped saying that I needed a machine with at least 32Mb memory to do an ftp update. Why? I asked myself, and then I realized: My machine has exactly 32Mb of memory! What's happening here? Is this a classic programming mistake? Or is something more profound happening here?

And more importantly: is there a way around this problem? I used both Suse 6.3 and Suse 6.4 boot floppies and they both displayed the same problem.

It feels like overkill to buy more memory just to install a system that is never ever going to use more than 32Mb.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do an update on a machine that does have a dedicated internet connection and a floppy drive, but no CD player? (O, and did I mention 32Mb memory :-)

The ftp installation takes up more memory, since YaST has to cache some files (e.g. package information). I would recommend doing an NFS installation - many download sites allow you to mount their shares via NFS, too. You can try ftp.gwdg.de for example.

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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:47:09 +0100 (CET) From: Lenz Grimmer Message-ID: Subject: Re: [SLE] NFS Update Server (was: FTP update with exactly 32Mb RAM?) Hi, orry for the late reply. On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Tobias Kuipers wrote:

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I would recommend doing an NFS installation - many download sites allow you to mount their shares via NFS, too. You can try ftp.gwdg.de for example.

Thanks for the advice, this was something I didn't try yet. However, now I have tried it, it didn't work :-(

Can you tell me what the directory name is that I need to mount from ftp.gwdg.de? I looked for info on that site, but didn't find any. Plus, does anyone know whether there is a list of publicly accesible NFS servers carrying SuSE?

We are currently compiling a list (as an SDB article). The only one I know of so far is this one: linux01.gwdg.de:/suse/7.0/i386.de/ For updates, use this share: linux01.gwdg.de:/suse/ftp.suse.com/pub Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany October; When trees change from hirsuties to bald pates.