Dňa Friday 05 October 2007 14:12:07 Kenneth Schneider ste napísal: > On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 10:03 +0200, Lukas Ocilka wrote: > > Rajko M. napsal(a): > > > On Thursday 04 October 2007 09:47:58 am Kenneth Schneider wrote: > > >> Hardware: > > >> > > >> Compaq Presario 1720US laptop > > >> P3 1G cpu > > >> 256M ram > > >> > > >> During first attempt to install (fresh) while selecting custom > > >> software choices the system became very sluggish and eventually > > >> crashed the installer. In trying to recreate the problem the system > > >> became sluggish again but did not crash and once swap was added the > > >> system became responsive again. This could become a big issue for low > > >> ram systems where a custom software selection is made. ... Perhaps > > >> asking to mount the swap partition before going to the summary screen > > >> would be appropriate. After my laptop install is finished I will > > >> repeat the process and try to reproduce the crash. If successful I > > >> will open a bug report. > > >> > > >> Ken > > > > > > What are minimum system requirements for 10.3? > > > It is better to tell new users not to make custom software selection on > > > systems that are below minimum. > > > > > > BTW, the low memory can be "emulated" with kernel parameter mem=256M or > > > whatever small amount one wants to test. > > > > For 10.2 the memory requirements were minimum=256 MB RAM for a new basic > > installation without any additional repositories, 512 (384) with add-ons. > > > > In case of update on low-memory system, Linuxrc should mount the swap > > partition automatically. This might be problematic for new installation > > on a computer without any swap (or not yet created swap). > > > > Anyway, it's always an issue to balance between the amount of available > > features, software and memory requirements. In this particular case, you > > might try LiveCD system but I don't promise it will be any better. > > Yes, but at this point of the install the harddrive has been polled and > partitions set and it would be very easy to create and/or mount the swap > partition.
http://en.opensuse.org/Linuxrc See the options how to activate swap even before YaST checks the partitions. Stano --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
