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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Installation
Date: Wed Sep  5 09:41:01 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010905094038.F23173@cvs.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010905234032.A80301@ada.snu.ac.kr>; from dk@ada.snu.ac.kr on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:40:32PM +0900

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:40:32PM +0900, Deokhwan Kim wrote:
> The `Gentoo Linux 1.0_rc6 "from source" (build) CD Installation' says:
> 
>   To install from the build CD, you will need to have a 486+ processor,
>   and ideally at least 64 Megabytes of RAM. 
> 
> Is the `64 Megabytes of RAM' a serious requirement?  I have only 32M
> RAM.  So can't I install from the build CD?

You can *try*, but be sure to enable lots of swap first.  Compiling glibc
is very memory intensive, and may not be a pleasurable experience for you.

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			



  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-05 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-05  8:41 [gentoo-dev] Installation Deokhwan Kim
2001-09-05  9:41 ` Daniel Robbins [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-10 15:27 [gentoo-dev] installation Carter, Raymond D.
2002-04-10 15:38 ` Alexander Gretencord
2002-04-10 15:46 ` Christian Loitsch

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