Hello, I work a lot with machines with limited amount of RAM, like: http://www.genesippc.com/openclient.php , but also many old PC's, which are still suitable for running xfce, Opera, vnc and rdesktop. Installation on these machines is getting more and more difficult due to RAM requirements of the installer (especially the package manager). Right now the only way to install openSUSE on such a machine is to enable a swap partition at the beginning of installation. Here comes a catch: one can not enable a swap partition, when a HDD is not yet partitioned, or partitioned for Windows, so the disk has to be partitioned manually with fdisk or parted before the installation can begin. I wonder, if support for swap file could be added to LinuxRC, so these machines could be installed a lot more easy. There are many ways implementing it. For 2-3 installations even an USB key would do the job (yes, I know that they don't like many write operations, but one does not install machines so often :-) ), or any existing ext2/reiserfs/FAT partition, which Linux can write. One could use a 'swfilepart=/dev/sdb1' parameter to choose a device and then create a big enough 'suseinstallswap' file, which can be deleted at the end. 'big enough' is about 350MB for factory / ftp installation source. Then mkswap, swapon could be ran on it, and installation of these low RAM machines could be done just as any other openSUSE install. This is of course only for 'advanced' users, who know what they do, just as installing from a partition, where the user needs to take care, that the installation source is not formatted during installation :-) Bye, CzP --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org