J Sloan wrote:
I just installed 10.2 on an old compaq Pentium 500 box with 9 G drive and 256 MB RAM - there were no problems at all with the install, but I only use it as a firewall/dns/dhcp server. If I were to use it as a desktop I'd use a lightweight wm, (xfce, icewm etc) or else bump up the RAM to 512 MB.
I am doing the same as you, almost. I have a Pentium 233 system with only 96MB RAM. I have been using this for some time as a NAT router and server with SuSE 9.0. A while ago I tried SuSE 10.0 but that dragged the PC down to a crawl and would not install in my lifetime. I scrapped the project and did not even use SuSE at all for a while. Instead I used Solaris 10 for the file server on an Ultra20. I was thinking about trying SuSE 10.2 but was a bit uncertain with reports of problems like this on older systems. Yesterday I tried SuSE 10.2 on the old PC and was quite surprised. SuSE 10.2 installed with no trouble on the Pentium 233 with only 96MB RAM. I did get the message about insufficient RAM but it found the previously created swap partition and continued with the install. I never could figure out how to get Ipfilter and Solaris to do a NAT router without something easy like SuSEfirewall2 to do the configuration so maybe I can get a router working again. A little off topic, does anyone know if it is possible to duplicate the SuSEfirewall2 created ruleset to work with Ipfilter so I could do something similar with Solaris? Damon Register -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
