On Thursday 04 October 2007 09:47:58 am Kenneth Schneider wrote: > Hardware: > > Compaq Presario 1720US laptop > P3 1G cpu > 256M ram > > During first attempt to install (fresh) while selecting custom software > choices the system became very sluggish and eventually crashed the > installer. In trying to recreate the problem the system became sluggish > again but did not crash and once swap was added the system became > responsive again. This could become a big issue for low ram systems > where a custom software selection is made. I believe this can be > verified by someone else that has a low ram system and by using the > "expert" area of the software selection. If you poke around in the > various patterns and also use search to select and deselect packages I > think this problem can be easily reproduced. Perhaps asking to mount the > swap partition before going to the summary screen would be appropriate. > After my laptop install is finished I will repeat the process and try to > reproduce the crash. If successful I will open a bug report. > > Ken
What are minimum system requirements for 10.3? It is better to tell new users not to make custom software selection on systems that are below minimum. BTW, the low memory can be "emulated" with kernel parameter mem=256M or whatever small amount one wants to test. -- Regards, Rajko. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
