please enter swap partition ???

[arix]

well i just got suse 9.1 i had laying arround and im installing it on my old pII 350mhz system 64mb ram the problem is that it says this when instaling it please enter swap partition what can i do i hav win2000 installed and i don whant it there anymore so what can i do to fix this the hd is 1.2gb im installing the minimun installation 180mb so what should i write there on that window "please enter swap partition"??

[kilgoretrout]

You don't have enough ram to run suse 9.1 in a graphical mode. If you want to install a server with no gui(command line only), you would be OK but it appears that the install program may be complaining there is insufficient ram to run the installation w/o some hard drive swap space.
There are linux distros specifically designed for older, more modest hardware like yours. One is "Damn Small Linux"(DSL) which is also a live cd(50MB download) so you can check it out before you install it:

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

Another is vector linux:

http://www.vectorlinux.com/

and:

ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distribu...n_table_2.html

Your main limiting factor is your ram. 64MB is just not enough to run the two main modern linux guis, kde and gnome. The above distros use much smaller, lightweight guis.

[arix]

well i took another way a just took that hd from that pc and installed it on my pc now i have 3 hd and i whant to use linux on that hd its 2gb wen i put that cd in it starts on but when it finishes it says the currend files presented errors something like that and then it says rebooting the system for the first time and it says something like installation error so what could be??????