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On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 02:14:06PM +0200, Alexander Gretencord wrote: |
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> On Friday 19 April 2002 10:34, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > I compiled everything on a p60 with 16mb of memory. Ok, it takes ages, but |
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> > it does work. I didn't boot the cd though, as the system cannot boot from |
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> > cd, but I don't believe there are any real memory requirements on the |
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> > install. Just don't forget to make a BIG swapspace if you install on a slow |
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> > computer |
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> Yeah you can do that. But not only the CPU will be quite slow but the swap |
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> space is even slower on that old comp. You won't want to use swap on modern |
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> computers and its even worse on such old ones. Of course it may work but I'd |
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> strongly suggest to not compile on that machine. (Just for the speed :)) |
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I also compiled with only 48MB ram, and for the base system (no |
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KDE/GNOME) it was nearly always enough (only glibc started swapping). |
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