On 2006-11-24 18:08, CwCrei wrote: > Darryl Gregorash wrote: >> >> 128 MB is insufficient to install SuSE 9.3, and I am certain that hasn't >> changed for 10.x. If you have the modules available and can upgrade that >> system to 256MB or more, try that, but after the system is installed, >> you'll probably need at least 512MB swap available with only that much >> memory. > > Hmm, that's a pity. Is it not possible to do a very cut-down > installation? I was pointed towards SuSE by a couple of people after > saying I was looking for a small installation to turn an old computer > into a small HTTP/FTP server I can hang off the ORANGE interface of my > IPCop box. It runs Win98 acceptably right now, and as I'm only seeking > a command line driven, lightly loaded server... If you have a previously existing swap partition, you may be able to activate that. The primary reason I can think of for such a large memory requirement is that no one can anticipate all the requirements of everyone who installs SuSE, nor even the hardware that might be available. There are a lot of configuration options that must be loaded at some point, and if they were all only loaded when they are needed, every installation probably would be slowed tremendously. (Now someone from opensuse can come along and tell us the real reason :) )
The miniSuSE project http://en.opensuse.org/MiniSUSE may be of interest to you for this system. The project seems to be in a very early stage of development, though. -- The best way to accelerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s² -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
