[S.u.S.E. Linux] Is this a record?
I have just finished an installation of S.u.S.E.-5.2 on a laptop. For some reason, the laptop is apparently not recognising that it has 20MB RAM on board and thinks there are only 4MB. When I noticed this I decided to press on anyway, to see what would happen. I installed over NFS: congratulations on a very smooth and painless drop-in of the PCMCIA services. Linux declared that only 1.6MB RAM was available after the boot kernel was read in. Of course, the whole thing was painfully slow, and I did not attempt to set up X. I guess at least 990f the 270MB that went on was channeled via the swap space (mostly overnight, while I was having a sound sleep). Nonetheless, it seems to have done a flawless job. And how long did it take? --- 16 hours. Is this a record? (I'd like to hear of the like being done with Win-98). Well done S.u.S.E. Cheers, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Date: 25-Jul-98 Time: 11:21:47 -------------------------------------------------------------------- - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Hi, On Sat, 25 Jul 1998 Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
I have just finished an installation of S.u.S.E.-5.2 on a laptop.
For some reason, the laptop is apparently not recognising that it has 20MB RAM on board and thinks there are only 4MB. When I noticed this I decided to press
Oops. There are not many machines where the memory size is misdetected. Use the kernel parameter: boot: Linux mem=20M
on anyway, to see what would happen.
I installed over NFS: congratulations on a very smooth and painless drop-in of the PCMCIA services.
Linux declared that only 1.6MB RAM was available after the boot kernel was read in. Of course, the whole thing was painfully slow, and I did not attempt to set up X.
I guess at least 990f the 270MB that went on was channeled via the swap space (mostly overnight, while I was having a sound sleep).
Nonetheless, it seems to have done a flawless job.
And how long did it take? --- 16 hours.
Is this a record?
Well, maybe ;-) We require 8MB minimal RAM, but I'm doing the hard testing with only 4MB. AFAIK there are not many distributions able to be installed with only 4MB. But usually I let it run overnight and do not check how long it takes. When installing on such a machine, first install the absolut minimum and install the rest after having booted the installed system. This way you have somewhat more memory which speeds things up, as there is a 700KB Ramdisk on the initial install.
(I'd like to hear of the like being done with Win-98).
Well done S.u.S.E.
Cheers, Ted.
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On 25-Jul-98 Hubert Mantel wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jul 1998 Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
I have just finished an installation of S.u.S.E.-5.2 on a laptop. For some reason, the laptop is apparently not recognising that it has 20MB RAM on board and thinks there are only 4MB. When I noticed this I decided to press on anyway, to see what would happen.
Oops. There are not many machines where the memory size is misdetected. Use the kernel parameter:
boot: Linux mem=20M
Thanks for the tip, Hubert. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with Linux failing to detect, but it is the hardware: there is a fault in the SIMM bay holding the 16MB add-on RAM chip -- even the BIOS can't find it. So don't worry about S.u.S.E.'s performance in this situation! I still think the installation went well in the circumstances. When I get the SIMM bay fixed I'm looking forward to running Linux on this baby: at present it takes 30 minutes to boot, 10 minutes to login, and 20 minutes to shut down! Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Date: 25-Jul-98 Time: 12:58:05 -------------------------------------------------------------------- - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
On 25-Jul-98 I wrote:
When I get the SIMM bay fixed I'm looking forward to running Linux on this baby: at present it takes 30 minutes to boot, 10 minutes to login, and 20 minutes to shut down!
Actually, while that did happen, it was really (I think) due to the fact that the post-install srcipts hadn't run. ___ I think I fell into your trap for the unwary: When it says something like "SuSE must now start some scripts. These scripts will start in one minute. You get a log on VT9, etc.", the message ends with ___________ "Press Return to continue" with a blinking cursor waiting for input. So you do that, because you want it to continue to complete the installation (i.e. run the scripts or whatever) since that is what you have already been doing all the way through the installation (i.e. press Return to "Continue"). However, doing that appears to abort the scripts. Next time round I left it alone, it duly completed its scripts and put up the boot prompt allowing login etc, and I did not have to "Press Return to continue" at all! I think you need to modify this prompt from YaST, because it is very misleading (and I'm not new to S.u.S.E. either!). Maybe something like "Press Return to abort running of scripts; otherwise do nothing, and wait for them to complete" (Though still slow in 4MB, because of the swapping, it's now only 4 min boot, 30 sec login, and 3 min shutdown, compared with the above). Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Date: 25-Jul-98 Time: 14:37:56 -------------------------------------------------------------------- - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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