I think that if you dig around the mandrake web site you will find that the minimun suggested requirements are 128 MB of ram for a graphical installation and 64 MB of ram for a non graphical installation on all the mandrake 9.X releases. You may be able to get by with less ram but if my memory is correct those are the recommendations that mandrake makes. I think it is less memory for the 8.X releases and even less for older releases. If you do get Mandrake installed with a small amount of memory try to use one of the lighter window managers like icewm.
Marc On Saturday 27 December 2003 05:05 pm, Simon Kempf Danebod wrote: > Not tonight, but it is straight EDO RAM I might be able to get more > installed! > I will try to find some and get it installed! > Thank you for the for the quick and sincere answer :-) > Simon > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] P� vegne af Anne Wilson > Sendt: 27. december 2003 23:59 > Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Emne: Re: [newbie] Installing problems > > On Saturday 27 December 2003 22:14, Simon Kempf Danebod wrote: > > I have an old laptop > > TOSHIBA S320CDS / 3.8 GB HD Pentium 233 MHz MMX > > 32 MB EDO RAM > > 12,1" Dual Scan (800 x 600) > > build in 20x CD > > > > And I am trying to install MANDRAKE 9.2 > > I have the following problems > > 1) I have succeeded in installing MANDRAKE 9.2 but the computer > > crashed when it came to the configuration of the PCMCIA. I have > > tried to reinstall MANDRAKE but it crashed every time (crashed= the > > PC freezes up and only resetting works). I have tried text and > > rescue with the same result! 2) I have also tried to Fdisk my HD > > but to no avail. I am not able to Fdisk my HD because of the > > existence of a logical drive, but as I try to erase the logical > > drive it tells me that this do not exists. > > > > a) First I would like to be able to install MANDRAKE on my old > > laptop! Does anyone know how to without it crashing on the PCMICA > > configuration? > > > > b) How do I clean my HD completely and thereby releasing recourses? > > > > > > Sincerely yours > > Newbie Simon > > 32 MB RAM is not enough to install recent Mandrake distros. Is there > any chance of getting more RAM in? > > Anne -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and Windows free computer using Mandrake Linux 9.2
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