[TriLUG] FW: Is it just me, or...

[H Brett Bolen]

Justin Johnson wrote:
>>I think it might have to do with your lack of memory....
> 
> I don't see what my short term memory loss has to do with a linux install,
> butt if you say so...
> 
> Seriously, is that considered a low amount of memory for Linux? I guess by
> today's standards it is for any OS, eh? I've thought about upping the memory
> to 128 on this puppy, but the chips for this machine is WAY out of line
> $wise. And why is it laptop memory is so specific to  the machine it goes
> in? Never did understand that about laptops....


I tried to put linux on an old ppc which had 80mg ram.  There were about 6
distributions i tried, and none would work, till I tried the text based
mandrake install.  It looks like the default installer uses X, which
sucks up all of the memory.

Anyway I did manage to get linux on the ppc -- you might try the
text install.  You might want also try sticking in an extra dimm/simm
just for the installation too.

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