Subject: Re: YDL 2.1 installer desires 64MB+ ram (was "Wanna By some Disks cheap")
From: Bryn Hughes (linux@demian.shacknet.nu)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2001 - 14:09:19 MST
Are you kidding? Win2K is not really useable with anything less than 128.
Mac OS 9 should have 128, Win XP is supposed to need about 256
realistically... 64 megs is not much anymore.
Bryn
on 10/30/01 3:03 PM, Pete Peters at ppeters914@home.com wrote:
> Uh, I realize that ram is cheap, but 64MB for the installer to run
> decently???? That's as bad as W2K and the lovely new MSI.
>
> Just my .02
>
> Pete
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Burcaw [mailto:dburcaw@terrasoftsolutions.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 8:08 PM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: Wanna By some Disks cheap
>
>
>
> THe installer really needs 64megs or higher to run
> farily speedy... if you have less then that, the speed
> will go down dramatically. (this has to do with the
> amount of data the installer has to compute
> to do dependency clean installs)
>
>
> On Tuesday 30 October 2001 01:09, you wrote:
>> At 8:17 PM -0800 10/29/01, Dan Calhoun wrote:
>>> YDL 2.1
>>>
>>> I thought I could make this OS work but I guess that it's way over my
> head
>>> I have been trying for three days now to load YDL 2.1 on a spare MAc
>>> 8500/604e 200, on a partitioned 4.5 gb HD. Using 8.6 OS on the Mac
> Side.
>>> I have reformatted the HD 3 times, loaded mac OS 3 times, I get
> through
>>> all the dialog, formatting, assigning mount points and then I get
> random
>>> freezes that are driving me up the wall, I almost got all the way
> through
>>> thisa evening the progress bar came within 3/8 of an inch from
> completing
>>> the load when it locks up forcing a reboot and guess what we start
> all
>>> over again. This went on for about 6 hrs Sunday and tonight same
> crapola.
>>
>> How long did you wait after the progress bar stopped? I've seen that
>> happen when installing on an older machine (PowerBook 2400 in my
>> case) -- at first I thought it was crashing but I decided to try to
>> wait it out, and it turned out that it eventually did come back to
>> life and finish the install.
>
>
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