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[James Hatridge <James.Hatridge@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi all...

Well it didn't work! :(  

I have a Toshiba Satellite 220CS. It has a PI 133mhz cpu with 16mb main memory 
& 1.35gb hd. Right now I have 7.2 on it. It does not have a CD drive. 
Normally I use NFS to install Linux. I have a PCMCIA network card, very nice 
set up.  

When I booted 8.1 from diskettes when I loaded PCMCIA module it told me that I 
did not have enough memory so it had to start the swap part. OK fine it then 
loaded the module and keep on going.

THEN when I started the NFS install it said that there was not enough memory 
to run YAST, starting swap. At this point I got an error that it could not 
start swap. I checked the error messages. There it said that swap was busy. 
Looks like the PCMCIA module started swap and did not turn it off or YAST 
does not check first to see if swap is running.  I can not find anyway to 
either turn off swap before I start the install or to tell it that the  swap 
is allready going. 

I know that the "best" answer would be to get more memory, but I don't have 
the cash for it. (Does anyone have Tos memory to recycle?) So what is the 
next best answer?

Thanks

JIM



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Jim Hatridge
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