Re: dselect doesn't work on 8Meg machine anymore?

2000-07-14 Thread markm
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 05:21:03PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: My brother is trying to upgrade debian from slink to potato on his 8Meg RAM machine. He has about 20Meg swap as well. Dselect is very very slow --- lots of swapping. And try to install stuff, and it bombs out with not enough

Re: dselect doesn't work on 8Meg machine anymore?

2000-07-14 Thread Mark Phillips
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 05:21:03PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: My brother is trying to upgrade debian from slink to potato on his 8Meg RAM machine. He has about 20Meg swap as well. Dselect is very very slow --- lots of swapping. And try to

dselect doesn't work on 8Meg machine anymore?

2000-07-13 Thread Mark Phillips
My brother is trying to upgrade debian from slink to potato on his 8Meg RAM machine. He has about 20Meg swap as well. Dselect is very very slow --- lots of swapping. And try to install stuff, and it bombs out with not enough memory! Now his machine has always been a bit slow, but we've always

Re: dselect doesn't work on 8Meg machine anymore?

2000-07-13 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 05:21:03PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: My brother is trying to upgrade debian from slink to potato on his 8Meg RAM machine. He has about 20Meg swap as well. Dselect is very very slow --- lots of swapping. And try to install stuff, and it bombs out with not enough