Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EMC2 requirements.

Jon Elson wrote:

> Kim Mortensen wrote:
>> Jon,
>>
>> I dont what other differences there is, but I could not instal it on the 256
>> Mb, so there must be other dependencies...
>>
>> I could run the Live CD without installing, but when I tried to install, it
>> would slow down and use the CD rom extreamly much to the end where it would
>> just not react to human intervention, and just keep the CD-Rom running.
>>
> Yup, matches my experience. What is happening is there is no
> swap file when installing, so it is paging out loaded code
> modules and then immediately paging them back in from CD.
> It would eventually finish, but that could literally take years.
>> Put in the ram, and it worked like a treat... (-:
>>
>> But I have also hear others that have installed on low memory machines.. but
>> I have no clue how they did it (-:
> I didn't do anything special, and I have some machines that will
> NOT install with 256 MB. I suspect the more I/O drivers it
> loads to match all the available hardware makes a difference.
> Since it has a hard drive available, it COULD create the swap
> file and start using it for a hard drive install, and that would
> likely solve the problem. Then, it could page out data as well
> as the pure code modules.

You have to ignore the 'big boys' that are trying to mimic M$
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ ( but there are others )
Just need the right bits from EMC2 ;)

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