[opensuse] Problems installing 10.2 on 256 mb system
Hi. I have a P4 system with 256 Mb of RAM. I start the installation from CD, and then direct it to install from HTTP. Then the installer says that I don't have enough RAM to run yast2, and it asks me to add a swap partition. I have made a swap partition on the harddrive, so I add it. Then I do the usual stuff, and the installation starts to format the disks, and then things go haywire: it can't mount the swap. The message says that it can't find the mount point 'swap', but the debug message lists the mount command, and that seemingly tries to do mount -t ntfs !! Is this a known problem? What can I do about it? Thanks. -Torvald -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Torvald Bringsvor wrote:
Hi.
I have a P4 system with 256 Mb of RAM. I start the installation from CD, and then direct it to install from HTTP. Then the installer says that I don't have enough RAM to run yast2, and it asks me to add a swap partition. I have made a swap partition on the harddrive, so I add it. Then I do the usual stuff, and the installation starts to format the disks, and then things go haywire: it can't mount the swap. The message says that it can't find the mount point 'swap', but the debug message lists the mount command, and that seemingly tries to do mount -t ntfs !!
Is this a known problem? What can I do about it?
I done a few installs into a 256 MB system, using NFS and it works fine. Have you tried that? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
--- James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> skrev:
I done a few installs into a 256 MB system, using NFS and it works fine. Have you tried that?
No, I haven't, I guess I could try that. I just don't understand how it would matter, but I will try everything at least once :-)) Also I have seen that there is a parameter MemYaST to linuxrc that seems to have some influence here, just wondering what happens if I set it low.... Why is yast using so much memory anyway? -Torvald -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 1/3/07, James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote: ...
I done a few installs into a 256 MB system, using NFS and it works fine. Have you tried that?
I installed 10.2 x86 on my 256MB desktop without any problem, but I did it from CDs. -- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Mark Goldstein wrote:
On 1/3/07, James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
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I done a few installs into a 256 MB system, using NFS and it works fine. Have you tried that?
I installed 10.2 x86 on my 256MB desktop without any problem, but I did it from CDs.
I just installed 10.2 on an old compaq Pentium 500 box with 9 G drive and 256 MB RAM - there were no problems at all with the install, but I only use it as a firewall/dns/dhcp server. If I were to use it as a desktop I'd use a lightweight wm, (xfce, icewm etc) or else bump up the RAM to 512 MB. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
J Sloan wrote:
I just installed 10.2 on an old compaq Pentium 500 box with 9 G drive and 256 MB RAM - there were no problems at all with the install, but I only use it as a firewall/dns/dhcp server. If I were to use it as a desktop I'd use a lightweight wm, (xfce, icewm etc) or else bump up the RAM to 512 MB.
I am doing the same as you, almost. I have a Pentium 233 system with only 96MB RAM. I have been using this for some time as a NAT router and server with SuSE 9.0. A while ago I tried SuSE 10.0 but that dragged the PC down to a crawl and would not install in my lifetime. I scrapped the project and did not even use SuSE at all for a while. Instead I used Solaris 10 for the file server on an Ultra20. I was thinking about trying SuSE 10.2 but was a bit uncertain with reports of problems like this on older systems. Yesterday I tried SuSE 10.2 on the old PC and was quite surprised. SuSE 10.2 installed with no trouble on the Pentium 233 with only 96MB RAM. I did get the message about insufficient RAM but it found the previously created swap partition and continued with the install. I never could figure out how to get Ipfilter and Solaris to do a NAT router without something easy like SuSEfirewall2 to do the configuration so maybe I can get a router working again. A little off topic, does anyone know if it is possible to duplicate the SuSEfirewall2 created ruleset to work with Ipfilter so I could do something similar with Solaris? Damon Register -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi, On Wednesday 03 January 2007 10:04, Torvald Bringsvor wrote:
I have a P4 system with 256 Mb of RAM. I start the installation from CD, and then direct it to install from HTTP. Then the installer says that I don't have enough RAM to run yast2, and it asks me to add a swap partition. I have made a swap partition on the harddrive, so I add it. Then I do the usual stuff, and the installation starts to format the disks, and then things go haywire: it can't mount the swap. The message says that it can't find the mount point 'swap', but the debug message lists the mount command, and that seemingly tries to do mount -t ntfs !!
Is this a known problem? What can I do about it?
I believe the following URL has all the answers you are looking for: http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_with_Little_Memory Greetings from Stuhr hartmut -- Hartmut Meyer, NTS EMEA Partner Relationship Manager SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg T: +49 421 3064385 - M: +49 179 2279480 F: +49 421 3064387 - hartmut.meyer@novell.com ---------------------------------------------------- SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 - Your Linux is ready http://www.novell.com/linux
--- Hartmut Meyer <hartmut.meyer@novell.com> skrev:
and that seemingly tries to do mount -t ntfs !!
Is this a known problem? What can I do about it?
I believe the following URL has all the answers you are looking for:
http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_with_Little_Memory
Thanks for the link, that tells why NFS vs HTTP matters. :-) Still the -t ntfs thing baffles me a bit, but I don't even know where to start on debugging this one :-) At least now I can try NFS when I get home. -Torvald -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Installing over NFS did the trick. Should perhaps be a box saying "you have little memory, try running NFS". I don't know. Anyway, thanks to everyone. -Torvald -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Torvald Bringsvor wrote:
I have a P4 system with 256 Mb of RAM. I start the installation from CD, and then direct it to install from HTTP. Then the installer says that I don't have enough RAM to run yast2, and it asks me to add a swap partition. I have made a swap partition on the harddrive, so I add it. Then I do the usual stuff, and the installation starts to format the disks, and then things go haywire: it can't mount the swap. The message says that it can't find the mount point 'swap', but the debug message lists the mount command, and that seemingly tries to do mount -t ntfs !!
Is this a known problem? What can I do about it?
I did an installation on a system with only 128 MB. Because of ZMD you have to have about 512 MB to install if you do not have a swap space. I create a swap space on the disk by using <ctr><alt><F2> and fdisk then back to <ctr><alt><F7> to continue. You can install as long as you have a swap space. I usually create a 100-500 MB win32 partition then a 750MB-1GB swap partition. The my ntfs and other partitions. Good Luck, -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com> ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
--- Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com> skrev:
and that seemingly tries to do mount -t ntfs !!
Is this a known problem? What can I do about it?
I did an installation on a system with only 128 MB. Because of ZMD you have to have about 512 MB to install if you do not have a swap space. I create a swap space on the disk by using <ctr><alt><F2> and fdisk then back to <ctr><alt><F7> to continue. You can install as long as you have a swap space. I usually create a 100-500 MB win32 partition then a 750MB-1GB swap partition. The my ntfs and other partitions.
I was successful installing it over NFS; as suggested by some other people on the list. However, why the ntfs stuff? -Torvald -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Torvald Bringsvor wrote:
--- Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com> skrev:
and that seemingly tries to do mount -t ntfs !!
Is this a known problem? What can I do about it?
I did an installation on a system with only 128 MB. Because of ZMD you have to have about 512 MB to install if you do not have a swap space. I create a swap space on the disk by using <ctr><alt><F2> and fdisk then back to <ctr><alt><F7> to continue. You can install as long as you have a swap space. I usually create a 100-500 MB win32 partition then a 750MB-1GB swap partition. The my ntfs and other partitions.
I was successful installing it over NFS; as suggested by some other people on the list. However, why the ntfs stuff?
I have to support MS people so I have a partition so I am able to duplicate their problems and solve them using it. Other than business client needs, I am MS free. -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com> ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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