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-----Original Message-----
From: ZER0 FREQUENCY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 7:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Signal 7....
Charles A Edwards wrote:
>GPL has nothing to do with the RAM requirement.
>
>You can run the install with less than 32MB but with 2 caveats
> 1)You have to perform the installation in text mode.
How do I do it in text mode?
Press F1 when the CD boots and type text at the prompt
> 2)You can not install the X window system
I don't mind. I can live in the console or my name ain't the ZER0
FREQUENCY.... :> What is important right now is getting helium installed.
AFAIK, X requires an 8MB or 16MB minimum to run fine....
>To me, unless you are planning to run your system only as a firewall or a
>file server, there would be no point in even doing the installation.
Personally, linux w/ or w/o the graphics is still a productive OS
depending on the capacity of the user's ability and know-how on his/her way
around linux. Linux's real power comes from console and not the
graphics...although I admit it'll look prettier if I can run X. I'm aiming
for windowmaker or blackbox as my window manager since they generally use
much less memory than KDE. I'll try GNOME, though.
All those still window managers require that XFree be installed and
even 3.3 requires more ram.
Btw, I checked out Signal 7 which led me to SIGBUS, It seems SIGBUS is
an anomalous fatal failure execution of ASM which results the processor
detecting an anomalous condition on it's bus. Ergo, I hope the error is
caused by some buggy code in the installation process and the memory is
irrelevant.
By all means run the installation in text mode and see what happens
Let me know how it comes out.
Charles (-:
Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
