The side of the box recommends (actually describes as a minimum requirement) 16 Mb RAM. The best thing is to just stick another 8 in if you can and everything will go fine. However, if this is impossible, the workaround is as the installation described: roughly speaking in the second shell, you need to use fdisk to create a swap partition, and then you need to use swapon to activate it for swapping. If you're going to do this, definitey read up the man pages of fdisk and swapon first. I can't talk you through it without doing the same myself, I'm afraid, but it won't be too bad once you've done it once :) On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Chris Davies wrote:
As a result there has been little time for looking at Linux. My aim, having got one machine ( a pentium 200MH) working with KDE, Apache server, printing to a novell network printer and workin as a client to Novell giving access to my space on the file server, is now to utilise the several 386s and 486s with 4 or 8 Mb, that I have as x terminals ( is that the right word). I want to have a fast machine as an X server and the slower machine doing some basic stuff via it like bweb browsing, email and basic word processing. I've tried to put Suse on a 8Mb 486 and it just doesn't work. During the install it says too little memory and invites me to start up a second shell by using F2 and creating and activating some swap space to use for installation. I can't find any help on how to do this. As I have similar machines it would be really good to know.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Chris Chris Davies Head of IT Epsom College College Road Epsom Surrey KT17 4JQ tel.: 01372 821178 fax.: 01372 821005
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