Re: [Rule-list] 8M install report

[James]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 02:10:28 -0500
Devon <address@hidden> wrote:

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> It worked!
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> It took nearly an hour to get to the point where it began installing 
> packages, but it is currently installing them. The free report:
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>       total   used    free    shared  buffers
> Mem:  5948    5440    508     0       2596
> Swap: 98744   34172   64572   
> Total:        104692  39612   65080
> 
> The system is an old Compaq Pressario 4122 upgraded to a P-200
processor. 
> I left 16M of RAM in the machine, and booted with 'linux ks=floppy 
> updates mem=8M'
> 
> I had to manually negotiate the 2 warning screens regarding swap, and 
> then had to agree to enabling swap early. (Since the installer is 
> blissfully unaware at this point that it is already using swap.) The
code 
> changes need to be dealt with far better than I have done at this point,

> but as far as a proof of concept goes, I'm going to call this a success.

> ;)

You should!  Devon one question.  In Mandrake when I've watched it's
install it seems to grab 4 or 5 rpm's at a time.  Read them into Ram and
then install.  Does Anaconda do the same thing?  If so wouldn't it work
better in low mem situations to only grab one rpm at a time?  Might save
on swapping

James

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