I have only 32meg ram can I install XP or 2K?

[manuelku]

now I only have 32meg ram but I am getting another piece of ram later, can I install XP or 2K? I tried but it said I don't have enough physical memory. can I fool windows about that and let me run with it?

 

[skyking]

I don't know if you can fool it. I know it will be terribly slow, and do some serious swap file action while installing.

 

[Nothinman]

Even if it's possible to fool it, you wouldn't want to. I've never seen a Windows system bootup with less than ~40M used, meaning even bootup will start paging to disk, actually trying to do things will be agonizing. Memory is cheap, get more.

 

[manuelku]

I just installed win98se it's cool, it's pretty fast.. celeron 566 and 32meg ram ... when I get more ram I will run win2k then

 

[majewski9]

Wow no way dont do it! I hate even running 98 with out at least 64 megs.

 

[Nothinman]

I hate running Win98, period. I'd rather not use a computer than be forced to run Win9X.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
I hate running Win98, period. I'd rather not use a computer than be forced to run Win9X.

Very true.

I'd suggest a light Debian or NetBSD install if you go for that kind of thing, or if you'd rather have suicide, try Windows 98.

 

[juiio]

I ran Win2k on a P133 with 32 megs of RAM. It worked great as a test machine, which is what I wanted it for.

 

[spyordie007]

According to microsoft neither will run:
Win 2K Pro requirements
Win XP Pro requirements
In reality I wouldnt want to run either on less than 128MB if you plan on doing any more than browsing the web with a single window...

You could always buy more...

-Spy

 

[Athlon4all]

You would have to hack into the txtsetup.sif file (it would be on the 1st setup boot floppy for XP/2000, or in the WIN_NT.BT if you ran setup from the Hard drive using WINNT/B kind of thing). The "requiredmemory =" line under the setupdata section determines the min-ram (in bytes, not mega or kilobytes) in order for the OS to install. By default for XP Pro (and I would think 2000 too, although it would seem to be 32 based on juiio's comments), you must have 64MB.

 

[CSFM]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
I hate running Win98, period. I'd rather not use a computer than be forced to run Win9X.

Here, here!!!

-CSFM-

 

[Varsh]

This may sound strange but a customer brought a machine in to my shop asking me to reinstall Windows XP Pro for him, I did that but surprsingly all he had was two 2GB HDs, an old Pentium 75 and only 16mb RAM, and it also was running Office XP fine, funny after asking him how long they have to wait till it loads up everytime, according to them they go to make lunch after hitting the on switch, come back 10 mins later and it's just loaded LOL, and after reinstalling it, gah it was painful, a 30 max job for both software turned into 5 hours -_-
Lets put it this way, it shouldn't every run below minimum settings but this is proof that it can O_O;;.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Varsh
This may sound strange but a customer brought a machine in to my shop asking me to reinstall Windows XP Pro for him, I did that but surprsingly all he had was two 2GB HDs, an old Pentium 75 and only 16mb RAM, and it also was running Office XP fine, funny after asking him how long they have to wait till it loads up everytime, according to them they go to make lunch after hitting the on switch, come back 10 mins later and it's just loaded LOL, and after reinstalling it, gah it was painful, a 30 max job for both software turned into 5 hours -_-
Lets put it this way, it shouldn't every run below minimum settings but this is proof that it can O_O;;.

OMG, I'd have to say that qualifies for an inclusion in the Gueniss (sp?) World Book of Records. :Q

 

[Varsh]

Guiness book of records or not, the next time I start installing anything on the spec of a machine, I'll throw away the computer first <_<, it's probably only worth about 20p as well LOL.

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: LilHen
The requirements say 64MB for Win2K Pro, but I've been running with only 48 Megs for a while now, albeit VERY VERY SLOOOWLY.

I also had a crashbox a while back (maybe 2000) that only had 40MB and Win2k pro installed on it just fine as well.

Generally speaking many "requirements" are not truely a requirement but a "strong recommendation". For example Photoshop 7 "requires" a P3 or better, however I've used it on a P2 before (slow as all hell, but it still runs).

-Spy