Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
Quoting Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>:Hugh Saunders wrote:On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 09:07:13PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:I'm running out of memory and am unable to complete the installation. I thought this could still be done on 16MB of RAM.yeah should be possible but slow... cheat; put the disk in another machine for installation then put it back. hughCan't. Notebook.You need an adaptor for the HD. I have woody running on a laptop with 20MB memory. Swaps a lot but works. You may need to increase the swap file/partition size. 2 to 2.5 times physical memory is/was the rule of thumb. Jeffrey
I increased the swap from 16 to 32.I was eventually able to get the installation completed under 16MB, but the swap drive was running so full so much of the time that I decided to just reinstall it.
It went much better the second time around. -- Stop me, before I kill again!