hi Thomas, i can't help with your problem, but i can tell you that 9.1 installs and runs pretty ok on a 64mb ram machine, as long as you dun try to run KDE (and prolly Gnome, but i've never tried.)
since it crashes after installing packages, you may wanna try install the absolute minimal number of packages to get a working system. (including urpmi of course, if it isn't defaulted) once you get that, you can install anything you wan, since there is now a swap partition. but try to keep with memory efficient apps. since you've only 64mb ram, try to install with more swap. the usual advice is 1.5x physical ram or 2x, but maybe in your case you can try 192mb or 256mb swap. it doesn't improve performance, but at least your system has a lower chance of crashing due to running out of memory. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Rudolfsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 22:43 Subject: Re: [newbie] MDK9.1 on P100/32Mbyte > > I tried with my pentium 100 with no sucess(both text and low resolution > install). First with 40Mb Ram and then with 64Mb. Same error both times I > think. Cant remember now but I used > Alt+F2, F3 or F4 or Alt+"som number" then I saw some error messages. > It crashes at the end of the installation of packages. > > I cant help but I'm interested if there is a solution because I would like > to use it sometimes. > > \Thomas > On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > > > I tried to install 9.1 on an old P100 with 32Mbyte of RAM and 370Mb HD. > > I used text-install, selected no packages. The installer chooses the > > basic packages - less than 100 - and starts the intallation, but never > > finishes. It hangs in the middle of the installation process. > > > > I am not sure it is a bug with the installer or a disk problem (I will > > try a check next time). In the meantime, I would like to know if anybody > > has ever tried an installation on such a machine with a recent distribution. > > > > I would like to stick with 9.1, I know I could try with an older kernel > > like 2.2 but the installation program and the supporting scripts look > > much easier to use in recent distributions. I am not planning to use X > > or network, I only need mpg123, mp3info and a couple of shell scripts. > > > > raffaele > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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