Install FC2 on i586?
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Sun Jul 4 18:49:47 UTC 2004
On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 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.
In retrospect, this is probably correct. Anyway, text install worked
fine. Next install, maybe I'll repartition.
Thanks.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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