On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, you wrote:
Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk tapped away at the keyboard with:
** I am also getting this error on a couple of 'low spec' machines (P90, 8Mb ** Ram), I am putting it down to lack of memory, because it does not happen if ** I double the memory. ** ** I go around it but putting 64Mb ram in the machine, installing and setting ** the box up, and then removing the memory. Bad work around, but it works...
SuSE is a sod on low mem systems. It won't install via FTP on my 16Mb P60 firewall at all. YaST also struggles a tad. I'd say that 32M is probably a good minimum as 8-16Mb makes it painful and causes ppp to dump all the time in my experience. My normal workstation has 256M of RAM in it and that stil swaps sometimes :-P
Having been able to install on a 486DX??? machine with 8MB, with the installation over NFS from another SuSE box on a LAN, I can say that it is all achievable with a degree of patience. It all seems much more painful while watching... :-)
A minimal setup takes about 40 minutes but as it runs unattended, no big deal. Go for a meal break. Just be sure to set up swap manually at the beginning. A 16MB system with similar CPU (P90 perhaps) installed in about 15 minutes off the same "server".
More memory would help; there's a low-memory thrashing problem for which a patch was posted here recently. The RPM should be available soon according to the announcement.
If you're trying to do this over ppp, you should expect a slightly longer installation time. The memory-thrashing may have come into play there.
-- Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning Perth, Western Australia
Thanks to all. I'm searching for some cheap/free memory for this thing now. But Bernd, my problem wasn't the time factor. The installs of additional (those not on the cd's) rpm's came to a screeching halt with an error. I tried my work-around this a.m. of unzipping on my main box then transfering the still tarred file to the firewall. It then expanded just fine. What I don't understand is why the rpm's from the suse cd's don't have any trouble expanding, but those I download do?! -- Tim http://ridgeriders.org -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq