Bug#350813: installation-reports
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 06:02:30PM -0500, Doug Tutty wrote:
> I have had poor luck with the 3.1 installer.
>
> Is there any disadvantage to using the 3.0 installer with minimal base system
> and upgrading via ppp?
No there is no problem with that. In fact for very old machines it may
be easier if the new installer needs too much ram. I have one machine
that started with an install of 2.0 and has upgraded ever since.
Given your machine has 32M ram, that could be causing some issues. I
think in a few cases the current installer might not work in 32M. Older
ones certainly did.
If you do the base install with 3.0 and then just upgrade it should be
fine on that machine. I have a 486/66 wiht 48M ram that runs sarge
perfectly, but I have never tried the sarge installer on that machine.
It last had an install from scratch in I think 1998.
Len Sorensen
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