difficulty installing 5.3-R i386

Wed Apr 6 05:45:03 PDT 2005

On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:27:21 +0400, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013 at student.uu.se>  
wrote:

> Yes, that is normal.  After installation you have got a swap configured
> and the system can use it if the physical RAM is not sufficient.
> During installation you do not have any swap available and therefore
> the RAM must be large enough to fit everything in it at once.
>
> If you really wanted to you could almost certainly *run* (but not
> install) 5.3 with only 8 MB RAM (at least if you had a customized
> kernel) but I wouldn't recommend it.

that's not completely true. when i ran install on 16 mb system rebooted at
boot loader start (i didn't saw beastie :) ), and after install it loads ok

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Best Regards, Michael