[NTLUG:Discuss] SuSE 9.2 ftp install

Russ russ.barrows at gmail.com
Sun Jan 23 13:51:21 CST 2005


When I did an install of SuSe 9.1 the software warned me that 128 meg
was marginal and errors might occur.  It took two tries to accomplish
the install.

G'Day
Russ



On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:40:33 -0600, Ralph Green, Jr.
<sfreader at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Howdy,
>   I have been telling people lately that you can install SuSE for free
> by using the ftp install.  I found a bug in the install this week.  I
> was trying to install on a ThinkPad 570 with 128 meg of ram.  Even with
> a swap file, the install fails.  I tried it a number of times with
> slight tweaks and it always failed.  I gave up and installed from a USB
> CD and it went fine.  So, I think I would say not to do an ftp install
> of SuSE 9.2 if you only have 128 meg of ram.
> --
> Good day,
> Ralph Green, Jr.   <severian at pobox.com>
> 
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