[ale] linux on a 486

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 09:21:07AM -0400, Wandered Inn wrote:
> Trey Darley wrote:
> > 
> > Dude. He just got done saying he TRIED Slackware. Better grab that
> > second cup of coffee. ;-)

> Yeah, true.  What I tried to do was to add enough swap to compensate for
> the lack of memory.  I'm going through the same process again, this time
> adding an even larger swap.  It appears that my last failure could have
> been attributed to problems with the network card though.  When I
> attempted to setup my nfs network connection, I received errors.  I shut
> the box down, tried to reseat the nic, rebooted and I'm cooking again.

	OH!  $#@$#@$#@!!!

	I totally forgot about that weird problem when I did a Slackware
install on those two laptops.

	It was an NFS install, just like you're trying.  I found that if
I told the Slackware installer that it was NFS and specified the NFS
path, it got all sorts of errors.  Most often it got errors complaining
about mount timeouts and RPC timeouts.  Which was really weird because
my NFS server was working fine.  Finally, I used Alt-F? (3 I think) and
did a manual mount of the NFS mount point and that worked fine.  Then I
went back to the installer screen on F1 and told it to use a locally
mounted path and specified the path to the NFS directory I had manually
mounted.  That worked perfect!  I never DID get the Slackware installer
on either laptop (PCMCIA network card) to mount the NFS directory
successfully, but mounting it by hand manually and telling the installer
to use a local path, worked perfect, first time, both times.  This
was also Slackware 8.

	With 8 Meg of memory, swap is definitely going to be important.
With that little memory, I don't thing the 2x rule (16Mb) would be
appropriate.  You'll need more than that.  Don't know what you tried
or what you have but I don't think I would give it less than 64Mb.
If you try doing to much at one time, you'll spend your life in swap.

> I'll post my success or failure once I get there. :)

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	Mike
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