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[bernie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bernd Felsche)]

Chris.Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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

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