On 1/3/07, James Knott 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

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

--- Hartmut Meyer skrev:

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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

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Torvald Bringsvor wrote:

--- Boyd Lynn Gerber skrev:

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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 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