Installation issues with tmpfs and swap

[Brig C. McCoy]

How much RAM do you have on the machine?

Depending on that, you might need to create a swap file on the hard drive 
before doing the actual installation.

...brig

At 09:17 AM 7/10/2003 -0700, David Mohr wrote:

>Greetings,
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>Problems:
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>I'm trying to load SuSE 8.1 on a "NEC ready 330T" laptop.  When I used 
>disk1 it becomes hung-up on "moving into tmpfs" when loading.  I've tried 
>using disk 2 and it bypassed the tmpfs problem.  It then asked for disk 1 
>and the following is displayed "Your computer doesn't have enough memory 
>to run YaST".  It then asked for me to enter the swap partition.  It gave 
>and an example of dev/sda2.  Where is the swap partition?  Do I need to 
>create a swap partition before loading Linux?  I'm not sure which route to 
>take to solve the problem.  Will it be easier to solve the tmpfs problem 
>on disk1 or the swap partition issues using disk2 first?
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>Thanks much,
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>David Mohr
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