Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2522 mails)

[KenzieM@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Mike Kenzie)]

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From: Bernd Felsche <bernie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [SLE] Bad magic
I'm having trouble putting it onto 2 of my old machines too.

One is a 486-66 with 12 meg of RAM and a 200meg HD and the
other is a 486-33 with 8 meg of RAM and 620 meg of HD on 2
drives.

It has a Sound blaster CD, I created 32mg of swap.
the install starts and then dies with the RED screen and
this message on console 3

 Error Open Output File, detail: 0 File systemCmd.cc
 line 530 YAST Return Code 256 (errno = 4)

Now it fails to read the CDrom at all, even though the sbpcd
module has loaded successfully.

I'm trying with a PLIP connection but am unable to ping the
machine, nd it is unable to mount the exported CD.

What's annoying is that this machine had a perfectly good
running copy of 5.1 before I decided to upgrade to 6.3.

> 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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