Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2006-11-24 18:08, CwCrei wrote:
If you have a previously existing swap partition, you may be able to
activate that.
Yeah, it offered me that option. A bit, "chicken and egg", though, on a
FAT32 disc. :)
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 :) )
Indeed. I remember the days of trying to get Linux up on a 40MHz 486
with a couple of MB RAM (didn't work - it was actually a second
processor inside an ARM RISC based machine. It ran Windows 3.1, inside a
window, beautifully, but the BIOS emulation was a bit of a kludge - it
worked with Windows, but not with Linux. The authors were receptive to
my request to support Linux, but said it was unlikely ever to be
financially viable, which it wasn't).
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.
Thanks. I'll take a look. There must be something suitable out there.
PJ.
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