[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Installing SuSe 6.4

[Bug Hunter]

  It installed, and it did turn on the swap.  It did it in text mode.  It
still took 15 hours.

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On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Admiral Michael H. Collins wrote:

> 	The redhat installer needs 32 megs at default.  Choose "text" and all
> should work.  It may ask you to get swap working before the install
> begins.
> 
> Bug Hunter wrote:
> > 
> >   I just put redhat 6.2 on a 486, I think it is 33mhz, with 16 meg of ram.
> > Whereas redhat 4.2 installed in an acceptable amount of time and ran fine,
> > 6.2 installed slowly. 15 hours!
> > 
> >   LILO did not work from the hard drive.  I created a boot floppy (I've
> > had experience with LILO on older BIOS chips -- it ususally fails), and
> > booted from that.  It took about 3 minutes to boot.
> > 
> >   The boot up process through redhat took another 5 - 10 minutes, until it
> > got to the x font server.  it is currently hung right there.  I will be
> > turning a _lot_ of services off to see if I can get it to work better.
> > 
> >   I think the moral of my story is to use RedHat 5.2 or previous.  Be sure
> > to apply updates for security holes.
> > 
> > bug
> > 
> >