On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Jon Pennington wrote: jp> On Mon, 06 Mar 2000, Mike Kenzie wrote: jp> > What's the minimum required memory? jp> > jp> > I tried to install on a 2 meg machine and I had to go to an jp> > old 1.1.59 kernel from slack jp> > to get things running. The machine is also lacking a CDrom. jp> jp> Strictly speaking, you should have at least 12 to do the install, and 8 to run jp> with a 2.0 or 2.2 kernel. I have heard tales of x86 machines running a 2.2 jp> kernel on 4 megs of RAM, but that's just asking for trouble. jp> Iv'e done it on 4 meg with 2.2.14 kernel, system runs, but very slow and un responsive, I definately don't reccommend doing it except to see if you can. I too would recommend a minimum of 8meg for a running system, though I would push for 16 for a machine you wish to be able to do compiles and installs on. jp> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v6.3+ - Kernel 2.2.14 The sum of the Universe is zero. -- 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/Doku/FAQ/