Subject: Re: suse 8.1 ftp problem
deem@wdm.com
Date: Sat Mar 29 2003 - 09:42:35 AKST
Hi Jim,
Say I had some fun awhile back getting SuSE 8.1 on laptop with 64megs RAM also.
The solution may or may not be what what you are looking for.
I simply used Debian to creat the partitions ahead of time and then used swap space
instead of RAM to get 8.1 to work.
Have Fun,
Dee
On 28 Mar 2003 at 13:46, James Dory wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> I was trying to install Suse 8.1 onto an old Dell poweredge server
> (Pentium II Klamath) with 64 MB of ram via ftp on one of the suse
> mirrors. Got as far as connecting to the mirror, then got an error
> message "not enough memory - enable some swap space" or something
> thereabouts. Click ok and then a dialog opens up for specifying the swap
> space, giving an example of /dev/sda1.
>
> I have a couple scsi drives on the computer so typed in the /dev/sdb5
> partition where swap resides from a 7.3 installation. I get an error
> saying something like error reading swap or error reading disk, don't
> remember exactly... but tried several different things. Went back in to
> the old install and even blew away a windows partition and created a new
> swap on /dev/sda1. No change when trying to install 8.1. I tried every
> partition number I had.
>
> Unfortunately there's no similar sticks of memory to be had in Nome to
> add to the ram, which seems like it would be the easiest solution. But
> just curious if anyone's run into this or would know what went wrong.
>
> Sorry about inexact error messages but I gave up and am reinstalling 7.3
> (making several changes so easier for me to reinstall than to muck
> around) and therefore cannot recreate them.
>
>
> Cheers, Jim
>
>
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