Use swap to install Debian?
I've got a very low-ram system. I'm trying to install Debian, but it's giving me problems. I've already got a 128Mb swap partition on my hard drive. Is there any way to configure the installer to use this swap space in addition to the little ram I have?
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Swap is used as "RAM" when RAM is short of space. It will be S-L-O-W. 128MB is small for swap, bump it up to 512MB and see what happens. It may be slow, but eventually, it'll probably be functional, maybe you can live with this. A better idea might be to use a minimal linux distro that doesn't need much RAM: Consider puppy, DSL etc. |
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------------------- Steve Stites |
Yeah, I'm already running DSL, I'll probably stick with it. I was hoping to experiment with Debian, way more packages and stuff, but DSL should do for now. Thanks!
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