Subject: Re: suse 8.1 ftp problem
From: Jim Dory (jdory@gci.net)
Date: Sat Mar 29 2003 - 18:33:28 AKST
Hi Dee,
I had Suse 7.3 installed previously and had swap partitions from that.
So I would have expected it to work.
I think I may have found the problem though. I didn't have the scsi id's
and boot order of the 3 disks configured quite right. I finally figured
out a solution that I was hoping to avoid (threw the new harddrive on
the old motherboard scsi interface instead of my new 29160 card.
But I was at wits end and just reinstalled 7.3 at that point. Problem is
getting it to update the old programs/packages. Seems like 8.1 does that
a bit better.
Cheers, JD
deem@wdm.com wrote:
>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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