On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 19:24, David E. Fox wrote: > > The installation program runs from a RAMdisk when you have 64MB or more > > of memory. If you have less, as you do, the installation program must run > > So that's it. I'm not affected by lack of RAM, but it's good to see a > coherent explanation. >
sorry, I was a bit terse. > On the same issue - how much RAM does the installation program really > need these days? As a fairly longterm user of Linux, I've seen and > done installs in as low as 4 megs of RAM up to my current system > configuration, which has 256 megs. As memory resources have increased > *quite a bit* in the last several years, it also seems that the > installers are getting fancier and requiring more RAM as well. > ... Depends on the distribution. Debian and Slackware will still install in a very small system, and I suppose that Gentoo or Lunar would too if you defined a gig or two of swap and left it to itself for a few weeks :-) -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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