On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 12:58:38PM -0800, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: > How strange, last night I did the same thing with an old pc. > > The pc is a very old Pentium 100 or 200 w/ 48meg of ram and a 6 gig disk. I > didn't know about the 64meg requirement, but xfree86 (ver 4) and KDE came up > and loaded fine with 48. It wasn't a speed demon, but it worked well. This > was with the regular 3 CD set and regular (not text) install. > > It only used the 1st cd for me too, but I disabled supermount, and added the > 2 other cds to the source list and it worked well. I didn't see this as > anything more than a very minor annoyance. Incidently, the cd-rom drive is > an old 4 speed, so since then I've changed the urpmi sources to one of the > ftp mirrors. But I've loaded stuff from the 2nd and 3rd cd without issue.
That sounds like what I need. Just how do you "disable supermount and add other cds to the source list". Is this something you do before installation? Or during? Or after? With a previous version onf Mandrake (I forget which) is asked me during install which CD's I had. With 9.0 it never asks. I hope there is another way to add to the source list than to answer this question! Or if I try a hard-disk install and start by putting the contents of the all the CD's on hard disk, do I put each in a separate directory? Or should I merge them all into one directory? by, say tarring each CD into a tarfile and then untarring them all into the same directory? That way there would be no separate CD to think of mounting. > > ~Brandon > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hendrik Boom > Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 5:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Hendrik Boom > Subject: Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.0 never asks for another CD during > installation > > > On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 15:52:48 -0800 > > Spencer Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 18:22:49 -0500 > > Charles A Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 15:04:43 -0800 > > > Spencer Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I think you will find that the problem is lack of memory. The bare > minimum for ML9 > > >is 64megs. > > > > > > > > > In this case the reason is more apt to be lack of fd space. > > > > > > For a PowerPack install to request other than cd1 requires around 2 gigs > or more. > > > This is due to the pkgs being ordered on the cds in to include depends > and as they > > >need to be installed and the fact the the installation creates a /tmp to > which many > > >of the pkgs are copied prior to installation. > > > This being why the fd space required for installation exceeds the space > required for > > >the actually used once the installation is complete. > > > > > > > > > Charles > > > > > I'm finding that even with more than adequate space, if you have a slow, > low memory > > computer ( I have several <g> ), the installer doesn't want to put much > more in than > > what is necessary. This is really obvious if you need to go to a text > install. > > > > Spence > > Well, disk space is not a problem. I have 2 gig available in my Mandrake > root partition, and can easily expand that to 10 gig if necessary. The 48 > meg is probably the real restriction. And it's stupid, too. The machine > has more than enough capacity for what I really want to do, and am doing on > SuSE Linux now. Occasionally it slows doen, but not seriously, and I did > want to get started with the new kernel, which is rumoured to be smaller and > faster, and do a better and more flexible job of packet filtering. > > And even emacs did not appear during the install. > > There must be a way around this. Could it be that the installer really > needs more than 48 meg to sort dependencies, and is incapable of using swap > space? > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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