Install FC2 on i586?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul  2, 2004, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:

> Not sure what would cause X to crash at that particular point in the
> install, though.  It's just going through the package load.  FWIW, the
> graphics card is a Matrox Millenium, so nothing touchy should be going on
> there.  The install has failed twice at about the same point.  I didn't
> observe the first one so I'm not sure if it's *exactly* the same point or
> not.

> Also, I've got limited RAM.  The installer doesn't complain, though,
> except that it turns on swap right after the partition step.

Maybe you just need more swap space.  I had a box that mysteriously
failed to complete graphical installs (text installs were fine) until
I needed, for unrelated reasons, to add more swap space to it.  At
that point, graphical installs worked again.

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