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Re: Installation goes on forever

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SIM Niger Systems Support)
Thu Nov 12 10:45:51 1998

Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 15:05:59 +0100
To: redhat-list@redhat.com, Chuck Milam <milam@uwosh.edu>
From: SIM Niger Systems Support <systems@sim.ne>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
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I didn't have any parity RAM for the Compaq so I switched to another 486
machine and put 16 MB (non-parity) in it. The installation finished
properly and it loaded the supplemental disk into memory which considerably
sped up the installation.

Thanks for your help,
Reg Sawilla

>On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, SIM Niger Systems Support wrote:
>
>> Having installed that, I decided to redo the installation, installing all
>> the packages I wanted. I am installing on a Compaq DeskPro 486/33M with 8
>> MB RAM and a 450 MB hard drive. The installation files reside on our
>> intranet FTP server (NT).
>
>The 8MB RAM may be a problem.  Can you put some more RAM in the machine?
>
>----------------------------------------------------------
>Chuck Milam		I.T. Division - Academic Computing
>milam@uwosh.edu		University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh


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