A user on the gOS forum ("edgetube") mentions that he got gOS
installed with just 64MB of RAM, but the system takes three hours to
boot!
Search for 64MB on the gOS forum to find his claim.On 17 feb, 12:49, mahjongg <[email protected]> wrote: > 128 MB RAM is definitely NOT enough, (for gOS 2.x and 3.x) and I don't > know who came up with the idea (wishful thinking) that 64MB is enough, > but it is bogus! > Even 256MB can sometimes be not enough the moment you try to install > gOS (in systems that use up part of the 256MB for the Video > framebuffer). > > The very first versions of gOS I have seen booting from CD on a > machine with just 128MB of RAM, but it couldn't install with that > amount, just run from CD, or after installing it by temporarily > upgrading the RAM to 192MB with a 64MB stick from another computer. > It did ran installed with just 128MB.But that was gOS 1.0, based on > the enlightenment desktop, not GNOME. > > That gOS works with just 256MB is in itself quite an accomplishment, > as the very Ubuntu it is based on officially requires 128MB more > (384MB) to work. > > There are very few Linux distro's that will work with just 64MB of > RAM, older versions of Knoppix might, or puppy linux. > > On 17 feb, 10:42, wewa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Thanks for your reply. > > > Yes, I confirmed that the CD burns were valid. > > > I did have a bad CD burn at 32x but did it at 16x and also used it to > > boot 2 other machines so I'm quite sure that the CD is good. > > > RAM could be an issue, as this machine has only 128MB, but the minimum > > requirements for gOS shows that 64MB works. > > > Is that misleading and is a 'microsoft' type of system requirement, I > > wonder?! > > Has anyone gotten a machine with 64MB RAM to boot gOS? > > > On Feb 12, 5:01 am, mahjongg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > IMHO almost always the problem lies in a bad CD, and there are many > > > questions like that that do report the issue was solved by making sure > > > you have enough RAM and that your CD is burned at low speed with an > > > undamaged .ISO file, using "burn as image" software. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
