[ale] linux on a 486

[Joseph A. Knapka]

Wandered Inn wrote:
> 
> Right now, I'm attempting another Slack install with a 48 mb swap.  I'm
> still getting random failures, and when I do, I switch to another virt.
> console and do the install of that piece by hand.  I don't know if this
> will work, but I'm going to follow this through to either completion, or
> the point at which the install crashes completely.  Should be an
> interesting learning experience.  Going on it's third day now, although
> I'm not able to attend to it immediately.  (ie, failures in the middle
> of the night, got to get some sleep. )
> 
> I'll post a summary once this completes or dies. :(

Just out of curiosity curiosity: how do you *know* the problem is
memory?
What if you start "top" or "vmstaton another virt and watch what happens
to
RAM and swap as the installation proceeds?

-- Joe Knapka
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