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Jonathan Finger wrote in a message to Mike Bilow: JF> I just tried to intall Redhat 5.2 on a 66MHz 486 with 8 JF> Meg of Ram. The installation software thrashed very JF> badly. It litterally took minutes for keystrokes to be JF> processed. I eventually managed to get the swap JF> partition enabled and then the keystroke response was JF> OK. JF> However, 8 hours later when only 10% of the software was JF> installed, I terminated the install. JF> I added 8 Meg of (borrowed) memory and the install JF> worked fine. (about 1 hour) JF> I then removed the extra 8 Meg of memory and the system JF> works fine. Debian has a low memory install boot disk set specifically to handle this sort of situation, and it does not force the creation of a swap partition. -- Mike *** Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to discuss-request at blu.org
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