On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 18:13:55 +0200 (CEST) Carlos E. R. wrote:
I have tried with the NET installer media, build 164. I know that other builds may vary. I try from 512MB in 128MB granularity, using the same virtual machine under vmware player, deleting the hard disk for each test. These are manual tests and take hours each, so I can't go finer. I attempt the graphical installer, trying the text mode install only if it starts automatically.
** The minimum for the NET installer is 896MB RAM, probably somewhat less.
768 MB is the size recomended by vmware for opensSUSE 64 bits install, but it fails. YaST is very slow on each screen. Failures are not clear, but some of the childs die, at the screen to choose packages, grub and other settings, or perhaps at the partition choices.
512 MB fails (but it is the minimum size reccomended by vmware for opensSUSE 64 bits), crashing both graphical and text mode installs before the first screen (and it is very slow to do so). However, it is possible to jump to a text console while YaST is trying to start and create a swap partition with fdisk and mkswap. Then we have to reboot and add that swap manually - the installation crashes before it has a chance to add swap automatically. Or enable it at boot (Thanks to Christian Boltz for this info):
https://en.opensuse.org/Linuxrc says there's a boot parameter AddSwap which you can use, for example AddSwap=/dev/sda1
** The minimum for the full DVD install is 768MB
I tried 640 MB. It gets to the license display in minutes, then stalls. I can't switch to a text console to find out what happened. So I reboot and switch to VT2 as soon as I can, creating a partition table and one swap partition with fdisk, and I activate it manually, without reboot. - From that instant YaST in graphical mode is reasonably snappy and I can finish the installation just fine.
I have not tried 512MB (full DVD), but guessing from the Net install and the above test, it would require creating and enabling swap as soon as possible.
Just for info (off topic, sorry). I have installed openSUSE 13.1 NET on Toshiba Satellite 1800. 11 GB HDD, _128_ MB RAM (-8 MB for Video). I have made a swap partition before. The installation has taken about 24 hours (via Wi-Fi). Finally, I had openSUSE installed, but no graphics for some reason. -- WBR Kyrill