[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Installing SuSe 6.4

[Admiral Michael H. Collins]

	The redhat installer needs 32 megs at default.  Choose "text" and all
should work.  It may ask you to get swap working before the install
begins.

Bug Hunter wrote:
> 
>   I just put redhat 6.2 on a 486, I think it is 33mhz, with 16 meg of ram.
> Whereas redhat 4.2 installed in an acceptable amount of time and ran fine,
> 6.2 installed slowly. 15 hours!
> 
>   LILO did not work from the hard drive.  I created a boot floppy (I've
> had experience with LILO on older BIOS chips -- it ususally fails), and
> booted from that.  It took about 3 minutes to boot.
> 
>   The boot up process through redhat took another 5 - 10 minutes, until it
> got to the x font server.  it is currently hung right there.  I will be
> turning a _lot_ of services off to see if I can get it to work better.
> 
>   I think the moral of my story is to use RedHat 5.2 or previous.  Be sure
> to apply updates for security holes.
> 
> bug
> 
> 
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Michael Hart wrote:
> 
> > If your looking to run Linux on a 486, SuSE is kind of FAT to fit into
> > that processor.  I've done lots of looking, and actually think Red Hat or
> > Mandrake are a better choice for running on a 486 (I feel like i'm
> > waiting on X to catch up much less of the time.
> >
> > There is a 486 specific version of mandrake (7.0.2) available (without
> > all the "contrib" programs) at
> > CheapBytes for 1.99 (or 6.0 for free if you want to get real cheap) If
> > you do check out cheapbytes be sure to look and the free stuff page.
> >
> 
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