On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 18:30, Mark Fickett wrote:
Hello again,
I am working on installing Debian 2.2r6 on a Packard Bell
Intel machine, which has a Pheonix BIOS, 23.0MB RAM,
23MB RAM? That's odd. Is 1MB stolen for the video adapter?
It seems that the 23MB is just for Extended RAM;
Hello again,
I couldn't deal with all the various layers of s, so first, for reference,
my initial email is archived at:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200206/msg02559.html and
you should be able to find any others from there.
In response to Ron Johnson ([EMAIL
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Mark Fickett wrote:
hda1: 379.98MB Primary Linux Swap, bootable
hda2: 48.10MB Primary Linux ext2, END of disk
That doesn't look right to me - you don't boot from a swap partition. I
think you should swap your swap for your ext2 and vice versa!
Patrick
--
Patrick
I'm going to make 2 replys, to 2 differennt parts of this
email,
On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 13:03, Mark Fickett wrote:
Hello again,
[big snip]
My current partition sceme is
hda1: 379.98MB Primary Linux Swap, bootable
hda2: 48.10MB Primary Linux ext2, at the end of the disk
Ack You can't boot
drive.. (I don't know about this, but I
think you can try..)
Good Luck
Ronald
-Original Message-
From: Mark Fickett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: lunes, 17 de junio de 2002 20:04
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Unable to make Linux bootable from HD or make boot floppy
Mark Fickett wrote:
I didn't notice; isn't it the linux ext2 that's 2x RAM? Currently I have it
partitioned:
hda1: 379.98MB Primary Linux Swap, bootable
hda2: 48.10MB Primary Linux ext2, END of disk
Also for reference, I have only 899 cylinders, so the 1023 cylinders thing
with LILO can't be
Hello,
Success!
I am going to respond to several emails at once here, since they all said very
similar things.
I did repartition the HD as follows:
hda1: 379.98MB, Primary Linux ext2 bootable
hda2: 48.10MB, Primary Linux swap (end of disk)
Upon going through the installation process again,
Hello again,
I am working on installing Debian 2.2r6 on a Packard Bell
Intel machine, which has a Pheonix BIOS, 23.0MB RAM,
23MB RAM? That's odd. Is 1MB stolen for the video adapter?
It seems that the 23MB is just for Extended RAM; it's 24MB total for System,
Extended, and Shadow RAM.
Mark Fickett wrote:
I am working on installing Debian 2.2r6 on a Packard Bell
Intel machine, which has a Pheonix BIOS, 23.0MB RAM,
23MB RAM? That's odd. Is 1MB stolen for the video adapter?
It seems that the 23MB is just for Extended RAM; it's 24MB total for System,
Extended,
Hi, Mark.
You, presumably a total Linux-newbie have set yourself up
with a daunting task trying to install not-the-most-hand-
holding distribution on _really_ancient_ hardware. If you
get it working you'll have something to write home about...
On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 20:58, Mark Fickett wrote:
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