[ale] slack rulez!!

[Dow Hurst]

I think that the SuSE distro's are storing rpm dependency data in RAM 
while trying to have the fattest prettiest install possible.  So with 
32Mb RAM you are forced into the ncurses installer mode in the first 
place and then all this rpm dependency stuff is being sorted and you run 
out of RAM since no real swap is available.  You'd have to accept the 
minimum install and if it completes then once you've got swap going, you 
might could work on adding packages.  Slack's install must be tgz based 
right?  No dependency sorting at all, correct?
Dow


Transam wrote:

>On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 07:45:04PM -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
>  
>
>>All I've got to say is, slack rulez!  It never fails, if I can't get 
>>anything else installed, slack will do it.  I've been futzing around 
>>with this p166/32mb/1gig machine for a week on and off trying to get 
>>Linux installed on it.  I've tried RH 8.0, 7.3, SuSE 8.1, 8.2  all 
>>crapped out on my, with very little clue as to what was the problem.  I 
>>tried adding more memory, no go.
>>    
>>
>
>I too have found that Slackware installs (and easily) on hardware that
>other Distros cannot handle.
>
>  
>
>>-- 
>>Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
>>    
>>
>
>Bob
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