On September 28, 2002 08:41 pm, Warren Post wrote: > El jue, 26-09-2002 a las 19:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > > I installed on an old Compaq Deskpro 566. I have 32MB of ram. I also > > have two disk drives. One is a 500MB drive and the other is a 1G drive. > > I installed the root on the 500G drive with swap and home on the 1G > > drive. > > > > Problem: I installed KED. I saw it install but when I boot up all I get > > is the text only command window. > > Do I need more memory? > > Thanks, > > Dave Capuano > > I'm not sure what the minimum requirements are, and we would need to > know which version of Mandrake and KDE in any case. But I can say that > with your older system KDE is not an option. You will find a lighter > window manager like IceWM or Blackbox to be much faster and probably > more stable. > > If you can put more memory in the box, do it. Linux uses RAM very > efficiently and so there's no such thing as too much RAM. In order to do a graphical install, you need a minimum of 64megs. You need 32 megs fot text install. If you wish to use KDE or Gnome you need a minimum of 64megs. I have managed to run IceWM down to 32megs but it's extremely slow. Scrounge around and find as much memory as you can and stuff it in there.
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