On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Thomas, Gregory (NBC, KNBC) wrote: gt> gt> gt> > -----Original Message----- gt> > From: Purple Shirt [mailto:purpleshirt@hotmail.com] gt> > Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 5:29 AM gt> > gt> > The machine she installed SuSE on was a 125MHz with 40 Meg of gt> > Ram, no CD gt> > Rom. From what I could conclude from far away YaST2 got invoked gt> > automatically. After a while the installation broke off because YaST2 gt> > demanded 48 Meg of Ram. There was a choice to choose YaST as gt> > installer and gt> > my friend got eventually SuSE installed. gt> > gt> gt> I was kind of stunned to see that it used a 48 MB ramdisk since most of our gt> workstations only have 32 MB of ram. gt> Also, I have two computers with 64 meg of ram, one computer for some reason (bad chip or something) is showing a few bytes lower then the full 64 so when attempting to do a ftp install or upgrade, it fails, reporting that system needs a minimum of 64mg to do a ftp install. gt> > This seems to be a minor problem. I just like to stress to gt> > the SuSE people gt> > that even though we are in the ages of 1 GHz+ processors and gt> > workstations of gt> > 256+ Meg of Ram I personally prefer tools which run on most hardware. gt> > gt> > I like to plead for SuSE to continue the development of YaST gt> > in the future gt> > and not abandon it, if they intend to do so. It is needed, gt> > even if only 10% gt> > of all users use it, it makes their life a lot easier. gt> gt> I hope they do, too. gt> gt> greg gt> gt> Because e-mail can be altered electronically, gt> the integrity of this communication cannot be guaranteed. gt> gt> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v6.3+ - Kernel 2.2.14 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/