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
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
installed in about 15 minutes off the same "server".
More memory would help; there's a low-memory thrashing
----- Original Message -----
From: Bernd Felsche
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
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