Linux newbie question?

[peter1]

I've been playing around with my new copy of Red Hat 6.2 and every time I go to install the OS, I get a message saying "because your system doesn't have much memory, we need to turn on the swap space now" or something similure to that. The thing is, I have 128M of RAM, so I know I have enough memory. I've been able to continue the installation without any problems, but after the install was complete, every time I would try to make a change to the linuxconf (add my NIC card), I would get a message saying "process 1339 error, segmentation fault"...So I was wondering if any one had some advice please!?
Thanks

 

[ddiccico]

Did you make a swap partition when you partitioned your drive for linux?

 

[bubba]

type 'free' at the command line. Some BIOSs don't correctly report RAM and linux sees them as much less RAM than they have. If 'free' tells you less than 128 MB, then just type 'linux mem=128M' at the lilo prompt and give that a try. If that works you can add an append line to your lilo.conf