Linux on older machines

[mikebw at bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net (Mike Bilow)]

Jonathan Finger wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 JF>     I just tried to intall Redhat 5.2 on a 66MHz 486 with 8
 JF> Meg of     Ram. The installation software thrashed very
 JF> badly. It litterally     took minutes for keystrokes to be
 JF> processed. I eventually     managed to get the swap
 JF> partition enabled and then the keystroke     response was
 JF> OK.

 JF>     However, 8 hours later when only 10% of the software was
 JF> installed,     I terminated the install.

 JF>     I added 8 Meg of (borrowed) memory and the install
 JF> worked fine.     (about 1 hour)

 JF>     I then removed the extra 8 Meg of memory and the system
 JF> works fine.

Debian has a low memory install boot disk set specifically to handle this sort
of situation, and it does not force the creation of a swap partition.
 
-- Mike


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