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  • From: Ondra Tomecka <otom7630 AT lucy.troja.mff.cuni.cz>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: RE: [SM-Discuss] Installing SMGL to very low-spec machine
  • Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:55:07 +0200 (CEST)

Yeah I considered this as well but currently I don't have any machine
where to do this :( At least not without too many problems for more
people. And in fact I don't that much care whether it is going to compile
everything for a week or two ;-)

Also it's going to be great success story if we can say that current SMGL
can be installed on machines as old as this one ;-) Not many other distros
can do that I think...

Thanks for suggestion anyway, maybe I'll have to do it in the end...
Andy

On 23 Aug 2004 evraire AT tuwg.com wrote:

> Might I suggest using a more powerful system to compile the applications
> for her system in a chroot, then you would only need to transfer the
> binaries from your chrooted environment. Without all the source code and
> the need to compile, your mother's system should be fine. I believe we
> still have the requirement of 1GB of RAM (ie: memory + swap space), at
> least for some of the larger spells for sure.
>
> Just a thought!
>
> Jonathan Evraire
> evraire at tuwg.com
>
>
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Have anyone ever tried to install SMGL on something like P75, 4M RAM,
> > 640M
> > HDD? My mom got such computer and wants me to create web browser and mp3
> > player from it ;-)
> >
> > I managed to install RH5.1 on it, but it doesn't boot from RH6.x or
> > higher
> > CD, as well as it doesn't boot from SMGL ISO from 20040414. Most probably
> > because all those newer ISOs try to create a ramdisk too big to fit in
> > memory :( I'm going to try to install SMGL over that RH5.1 when I get
> > home
> > from work, but I'm not sure I understood instructions for chroot
> > installation correctly. I'll see in the evening.
> >
> > In the meantime I would appreciate any tips for such low-memory
> > configuration ;-)
> >
> > And before anyone suggests that installation wouldn't be possible with
> > such small disk, I'm going to use samba share for that ;-)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andy
> >
> >
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