Hi all,
I hope I'm not going to be very boring, but I really had a bad experience
with Linux yesterday...
I had a 486DX2 machine with 8MB of Ram and 200MB of HDD, and tryied to
install Slackware 3.5 on it. Booted, rooted, and when I've runned 'Set
swap partitions' or 'Set target partitions', I got 'SetSwap can't fork'
and 'SetTarget can't fork'. After hours of struggling, I finally read the
message welcoming you: Yes, I've got to activate the swap partitions
before running 'setup' on a 8MB of Ram machine!
I mean, Linux started as a 'small' operating system, with high
performances and low requirements (2MB of Ram???). I remember installing
Linux 1.2.13 on a 486SX, with 4MB of Ram, and compiling kernel, and all
the other stuff without problems. And here I am, one year later, trying to
install the latest Slack on a machine with double memory, processing speed
and having problems from the very beginning... I know that a OS should
develop, and that means growing, but is there anyone out there who's still
interested in optimizing???
Have fun,
bogdan
