On Tuesday 21 October 2003 01:57 am, 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 I do not believe that 32 mb is enough to do an install with 9.1. Minimum would be 64mb. It may work on rare occasions, but not as a rule. Sorry. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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