Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EMC2 requirements.

good point... the HW is different form machine to machine, and some HW
Drivers could be large in size...

Best Regards
Kim Mortesnen


2008/8/26, Lester Caine <lester@...>:

>
> 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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