[ale] slack rulez!!

[Geoffrey]

Dow Hurst wrote:
> 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.

A couple of things I noticed about this.  First, when I would get the 
error message, which looked like something from Microsoft, 'an error has 
occurred in the install' or something to that effect, I switched to a vt 
and noted that the swap that had previously been mounted was no longer 
mounted???  I guess there's the possibility that it was unmounted 
because the error was detected, but I'm wondering if this is not a 
problem caused by the attempt to remake the swap partition or something 
along those lines.

Further, I added additional memory to this box, 128mb, and still 
received the same error.  Weird.  I had also tried RH 7.3 and 8.0 with 
no success.

> 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.

When SuSE starts up, it tells you you don't have enough memory and that 
they will mount some swap.  I verified this happens prior to the 
continuation of the install.  I just think it's likely that SuSE hasn't 
tested this sufficiently as that's not a target machine.

> Slack's install must be tgz based right?  No dependency sorting at all,
> correct?

That's correct.

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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Think about it...

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