On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, richard (MQ) wrote:

> Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, richard (MQ) wrote:
> > 
> >> Earlier versions of SuSE / OpenSuSE ran (albeit slowly) on low-end
> >> machines - YaST installation detecting the lack of RAM and requesting
> >> swap before continuing.
> >>
> >> Tried 10.3 Beta-1 (KDE single CD) on one such (Pentium-1, 133 MHz, 80 M
> >> RAM, 2G HDD with swap already prepared - runs OSL 10.0 at present).
> >> Install (standard and 'safe settings' tried) aborts with a kernel panic
> >> 'out of memory' shortly after 'moving into tmpfs', no attempt to ask for
> >> swap.
> >>
> >> Is this expected / intended behaviour? - in which case it might be nice
> >> to warn potential users! Very little on the wiki about minimum spec...
> > 
> > Does booting with 'addswap=-1' help?
> > 
> 
> Steffen,
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion but no joy. I tried this both in standard and
> 'safe settings' installation, also 'rescue system' - still does a kernel
> panic at the same place.
> 
> Are there any other options to this boot parameter? Where would I find a
> list?

It's at http://en.opensuse.org/Linuxrc.

You might try '_tmpfs=0'.


Steffen
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