Re: 16MB not enough to install

2003-02-18 Thread Tom Allison
Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: Quoting Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 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 poss

Re: 16MB not enough to install

2003-02-17 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 bu

Re: 16MB not enough to install

2003-02-17 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:49:13AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > Hugh Saunders wrote: > >yeah should be possible but slow... cheat; put the disk in another > >machine for installation then put it back. > > Can't. > Notebook. Can. Did. :-) Mine was a Toshiba T1950CT (486DX2/40) with only 8M. Took a

Re: 16MB not enough to install

2003-02-17 Thread Tom Allison
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 installatio

Re: 16MB not enough to install

2003-02-16 Thread Hugh Saunders
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.

Re: 16MB not enough to install

2003-02-16 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 09:07:13PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > What's the catch? just an idea, how about doubling your swap space to 32 MB? hth sean msg31206/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 16MB not enough to install

2003-02-16 Thread Aaron Isotton
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 03:07, Tom Allison wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian onto a machine with only 16MB of RAM. > I have a 16MB swap drive as well. > > The installation is for i86 architecture using the Advanced rather than the > Simple package selection. > > I have opened dselect and close