Installing Suse 10.3 Problem

Rich309 · 05-05-2007, 02:25 PM

I tried to install 10.3 in a frends computer and could not get passed this message:
YEST does not have enough memory to instaal.."
The computer has 174 MB of Ram. Not enough?

If I could get to the particaning I think I could get it installed.

My experance: I first installed SUSE 9.3, 10.1, 10.3 in several computers. all of these computers are double boot and have more then the abouve mention memory.

Richard

Larry Webb · 05-05-2007, 03:15 PM

That is the problem, most of the newer larger distros require a minimum of 256 megs of mem.

Larry Webb · 05-05-2007, 03:18 PM

I might add there are some smaller distros out there that function well and use less memory, do a little research and choose the best one or upgrade his memory.

rtspitz · 05-05-2007, 03:27 PM

you could try to run the rescue system from the boot cd and manually create the partitions - including swap.
then next time when it says "bla bla low memory, cannot run yast.... blabla" and "use swap partition e.g. /dev/hda2" or sth. like it you can use the swap space for the installation.

OR just get more ram. I highly recommend using more ram. Otherwise KDE or gnome won't be fun to work with.