On Tuesday 01 March 2005 14.13, James Knott wrote:
Glenn Holmer wrote:
I'm trying to get SUSE 9.2 to install on an old machine with just 64M of core and no CD-ROM drive. OK, I built the half-dozen floppy images on another machine and went to install from that machine over HTTP. The install starts, warning me to add swap first (which I do, as there's already a Linux swap partition available), but then it just hangs with the progress bar about 3/4 filled.
Is this even possible in 64M?
I have installed SuSE 9.1 in 64 MB, without difficulty. However, I didn't install any GUI, as it's used only as a firewall. I installed from CD thought. I don't know if a network install has greater requirements.
I seem to recall the figure 92 Mb for install. Boot via the install floppies, and manually enter the shell (alt-f2), create all the partitions, make some swap, and enable that. Then flip back to the installer and continue. That is how the manual tells you to do for a low ram system. I would probably make a 128-512 Mb swaparea in your case, depending on what you are going to do with it. -- /Rikard --------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh@norweb.se Web : http://www.rikjoh.com/users/rikjoh Mob : +46 735 05 51 01 PGP : 0x461CEE56 ---------------------------------------------------------------