On Wednesday 15 February 2006 11:24, jdd wrote:
Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
Actually, it is stupid. Stupid and inflammatory.
sadly you answer often on this ridiculous flame mode.
No, I get agitated by ridiculous comments, like saying "do we want to puch all these people out of SUSE world???" Before you make what is definitely, imho, a stupid comment like that, you should try to resolve the problem first.
Now, a graphical installer having more capabilities added to it... you expect it to need _less_ power?
if you had read my post, you should know I don't use at all any graphic on this computer (in fact I try to use a very lightweit one :-) and no graphical yast, should not work anyway.
That was nowhere within your original post.
thing. Ask it to do more, and it needs more. You want less ram to be needed? Use a more lightweight DE.
my concern is that yast, in the lighter ncurse mode still ask for many power. However the 9.1 yast runs very well. for any unknown (for me) reason, the _install_ yast asks for more power than the normal one.
Might be worthwhile to emulate the installation process, and see where and how much of a spike in memory usage exists. Also, saying it crashes and whether or not it uses alot of memory are two very different things. Have you run memtest on your hardware? Are you 100% sure there isn't a physical problem with the ram installed in this older system? Give that a shot and lets see if any errors come up there - I had a similar issue with an AMD 800 system with 384MB ram... one 128mb dimm was screwed. I pulled it, and install went beautifully.
I must go, then :-(, sorry, more on this in some time. I think there is a solution.
jdd
Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin