Re: Older computer

From: Martin Blume (mblume_at_socha.net)
Date: 11/21/03 

Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:38:32 +0100

"Martin Blume" <mblume@socha.net> schrieb
>
> "Øystein Sund" <onan@start.no> schrieb
> > Is it possible to install SuSE linux on a computer with less
> > than 64 MB ram?
> >
> Don't know, I think it's possible, but I'm not sure.

An addition to my previous post:

If it doesn't work, the following trick might help:
- partition your harddisk to have at least a swap partition on it
(with fdisk, cfdisk or whatever you prefer).
- create the swap partition (mkswap /dev/<your-partition>).

Yast will then see the already existing swap partition and use it.
Earlier versions of yast were not able to create this swap space
on-the-fly (i think even not by starting the rescue system first),
so you'd have to use another distro (a floppy-distro or knoppix (on
CD)).

HTH
Martin

Relevant Pages

  • SUSE on 64Meg system?
    ... I am trying to install SUSE 9.1 personal onto it but it keeps saying that ... YaST cannot run in 64Meg and that it needs to access a swap partition - but ... I do not have a swap partition - I wanted SUSE to create all partitions for ... But it seems it needs more memory to run YaST to ...
    (alt.os.linux.suse)
  • [SLE] SuSE 9.3, software RAID and swap partition
    ... I've got a box with 2 SATA drives configured through YaST during installation ... as a RAID1 mounted to / root which is working well. ... I'm about to start testing this and wanted some information on the swap partition. ...
    (SuSE)