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I have a 486-33, 8MB RAM, Soundblaster 1x CD-ROM (old). It seems that the program will never install. I have tried 4 times, and it seems to slow down until it no longer is running. I think it looks a lot like a memory leak. I get to the point of installing packages and the disk starts writing hard (at first) and then after 5-10 packages it slows down and finally stops altogether. The average was 8 packages. I installed the same version on a P5-90 and it works fine. It looks like a memory problem when working with the lists of packages. Possibly writing them to a /tmp/ file instead of using memory would work with machines. This is either a bug in the older CD code or just in the installer.
We have observed this to be a problem with low (8 or less) memory machines and are working on finding a solution. This will probably be an errata item when we finally fix the problem. Until then the main workaround is to place at least 4-8 more megs of memory in the machine.