On Tuesday 01 March 2005 02:55, 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?
My guess is you shouldn't try. I think it will always run like treacle. I've just put 9.2 on an ancient Pentium 2 233Mhz, and it's running fine (I gave it 3 SCSI disks set up as raid 0 to give it a chance). But it has 256 MB RAM. If you care enough, add RAM, if you don't, put something like Net or Open BSD on the machine. Open BSD certainly offers an X free installation over ftp as an easy choice, so you'll get a minimal secure system which would be fine as a gateway/firewall, a small webserver or little file-server. You only need to download one floppy. Those OSes will be happy enough with 64MB and run OK. What are you going to use it for, BTW?
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