-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:08:15PM +0200, jdd wrote: > > >The hardware you keep talking about and what you are pushing is not able > > >to do the installation, because of e.g. memory problems. > > > > it was able to install 10.0, but not 10.1 alpha (I was saif > > final is better). We should not let people alone that used > > our product. two years support don't mean two years > > computers are too old for us. > > It also does not mean that a computer that you had two years ago was a > recent one then. I would be very surprised if the PC you bought 2 years > ago won't install 10.1 because of specifications. > > That is unless you bought an even for that time machine with way too low > specifications. As you know the most limiting factor is the installation > itself. If you have taken that hurdle, then you can run SUSE just fine > with e.g. Windowmaker. > > The limiting factor is memory.
The limiting factor is memory and swap space. I run SUSE Linux 10.1 on 3 667 MHz 128 MB Memory computers. They key is having 1.0-1.5 GB swap space. I have to run /etc/init.d/novell-zmd stop 10 minutes after the machine is up or there are times when the machine is un-useable. I run these computer's with 4-8 xterms 3-6 SeaMonkey windows and on OpenOffice.org writer. I have found that the best way to updates these is with smart. I have a 35 GB / and 25 GB home on two machines and one with everything else in / (see below). # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 56G 50G 5.3G 91% / udev 62M 236K 62M 1% /dev /dev/hda1 60G 53G 6.8G 89% /windows/C # swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/hda5 partition 923696 106532 42 So the only real problem is the installation. I am unable to do a partition on a new HD with 10.1. So I boot into recovery mode and do a quick partition on the HD and then an installation. On all these systems I have almost everything installed. I found the installation is best done from a local inst-source and non-oss-inst-source with update/10.1 added. Then all I have to do is take the time to select everything and resolve the conflicts and then let it run till it is installed with the updates. I have used this to install over 15 SUSE 10.1 installations without problems. So jdd is not the only one use sub-optimal new computers. I am very happy with the results after the installation. Thanks, - -- Boyd Gerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQFE0lplVtBjDid73eYRAlFZAJ9Mjz15nn/AGVuT2Do7Zf6DB6BKegCfcAgF 7WliWWVcVN7O9IRgtM18pDY= =AvG/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
