On Thursday 08 November 2001 13:30, you wrote: > On Thursday 08 November 2001 08:24 am, Eric Caron wrote: > > I tried to install mandrake linux on a pentium 100 with 24 megs of > > ram and I couldn't get to the end of the installation. The > > packages are installed, but either when configuring the network > > parameters or when installing lilo (depends on if I choose low, > > medium or high security), the installation dies with a segfault, > > saying I don't have enough memory. > > AFAIK from lurking on the cooker list, 32 mb ram is bare minimum > to install Mandrake.
I managed to get mdk7.0 on to a p133 thinkpad with 16 mb, after I upgraded to 32 mb, mdk 7.1 was workable -in both cases using the text based install-. I actually managed to install 8.1 on it, but even working solely textbased brought back memories of windows3.1 :( On the other hand; at least you get plenty of time to boil a pot of coffee ;) Usable installations with acceptable speed were/are upto mdk.7.1, Suse 6.4, slackware 7.1. I would have liked to check out a few more distribs, but the parport- or pcmcia-CDdrive is a real killer at install. You might take it a bit higher but then don't use heavyweight desktops like KDE or Gnome. Especially KDE> 1.2 is deadly slow. Anything higher is "swap till you drop" Good luck Harm Bathoorn
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