On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 03:39 -0400, Craig wrote: > | now, the point... they are trying to install on a old PII-300 64mb and 1 > | mb video card and they have a problem installing the fc2 it would just > | restart after menu for installation It restarts after which menu? If it hangs at "reading package information..." then make sure the "Linux Swap" hard disk partition is approximately 192 MB. Automatic partition will create 188 MB swap partition for a system with 64 MB RAM. Also, make sure you enable swap space when it asks. Once the system is installed disable all non-essential services (run system-config-services). That should greatly improve performance with only 64 MB RAM. > In fact, 64mb is the bare minimum for a text install > and 192mb minimum for a graphical install. More RAM would be advisable but it is not required. I've installed on a number of systems with 64 MB RAM or less. I just now finished installing a system using the graphical installer with 64 MB RAM and 188 MB swap. I encountered no problems during installation. 40MB RAM still seems to be the minimum for text mode install since my posted FC2t1 minimum ram tests earlier in the year. I have a Pentium 90 MHz laptop running GNOME on FC2 with 40 MB RAM. I'm using the kdrive X server to conserve RAM and I have disabled all services. Otherwise it is a normal installation. It is slow but it works just fine. Such a machine works very well when combined with XDMCP. With XDMCP you can comfortably use the standard X server since all the applications are running remotely. -- David Norris http://www.webaugur.com/dave/ ICQ - 412039
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