XFCE won't install

[Paul M. Bucalo]

On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 19:42, Rusty Herbert Cross wrote:
> I'm installing XFCE 4.2.0 on an older computer.  An AMD-K6 with 256 Mb
> of Ram.  The OS is OpenBSD 3.6.  I ran the installer for 46.7 hours
> with no noticeable progress.
> 
> The top command reports that make was running at %96 for all 46.7
> hours, so it is not frozen as I had thought.
> Top also shows that I have plenty of RAM (150Mb free) while the OS,
> the installer, and the X system occupy 90Mb.
> 
> The .xfce4.installer-log has 6 pages more than a log for a 14 hour
> install that I cancelled last week.  I want to ask this group, is
> there any anecdotal evidence that XFCE will run on a computer as old
> as this?

I have XFce 4.2 running smoothly on the following boxes:

Intel P233 MMX, 128 MB RAM, 9 GB HD, RIVA TNT2 w/ 32 MB VRAM
AMD K6-2/500, 256 MB RAM, 40 GB HD, S3 Savage 2000 w/ 64 MB VRAM

Both are running WBEL. 

The os-cillation installer works well, though I am not able to get GDM
to register XFce 4.2 as a session choice without manual intervention.
Installation on the P233 takes a couple of hours. Updates and upgrading
through WBEL mirrors, Dag Wiers and kde-redhat, on the other hand (and
this on a 3 GB downstream)  ...several hours. ;0)

Paul