Subject: Re: Installer hangs while partitioning...
From: Terry Allen (hmag@ozemail.com.au)
Date: Tue Dec 11 2001 - 13:35:24 MST
>I think I have 16 megabytes of RAM, if that's what you mean. I've managed
>to get past the partitioning process and now am formating the disk drives,
>but its sitting here *seemingly* not doing anything. No disk hits or
>anything. The "progress bar" progressed about a half an inch and now is
>stuck solid.
>
>I have to apologize for the small amount of memory in the 8500. I bought
>this machine when memory was oh so dear.
>
>-- John
>
>
>On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Terry Allen wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>> You didn't specify if your machine has only 32MB. I tried an
>> install of both YDL & Linux PPC previously & they both sat there for a
>> looooong time seemingly doing nothing. 64MB seems to be a minimum for Linux
>> on PPC from my very limited experience.
>> Of course if you have more than 32MB, forget everything I just said.
>
>--
Hi again,
Another user said they successfully got an install using 32MB, but
I think even that's too small - see if you can pick up some more memory,
even if to just borrow it from someone. I think this is most likely your
problem.
Bye for now, Terry Allen
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