I'm trying to install potato on this Intel machine using floppies, and when
it gets up to the point where you are supposed to insert the root diskette
it goes into a loop that says:
NMI received for unknown reason 2c
Dazed and confused, but trying to continue.
Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
NMI received for unknown reason 3c
(messages repeat...)
Although this keeps cycling across the screen, if I just press enter, it
will read the root diskette anyway, and then go through installing the 3
driver disks, but after partitioning the hard drive it gets stuck in this
loop for good and I can't get any further. I have tried using the old CPU
install option, and tried both parity & nonparity RAM. All power saving and
cache is disabled. The system previously ran DOS & Windows OK.
The machine in question is a 486DX2 CPU on a Soyo 25N VESA Local Bus
motherboard with 32MB RAM. The only cards in the system are a Promise
EIDE2300+ floppy/hard disk controller and an STB Sprint 1.1 Trident-based
video card. The BIOS is an Award 2C4I9S23.
I am a Windows expert but have no experience in Linux, never installed it
before and really wanted to try it out on another system before I took the
plunge on my primary box. I tried the Storm freeware version and had the
same problem. Is there anything I can do with this machine or should I just
give up trying to run Linux on it? I really see great potential for Linux
once the installation & update of it can be streamlined, but running into a
wall like this is what scares the consumer away and keeps them tied to M$.
If I do get Linux installed with floppies, will I be able to use a dialup
internet connection to download the rest of the modules?
How much disk space are we talking about just for a basic Linux system with
Xwindows or Motif, a web browser, and email client?
Thanks for your patience with all these questions.
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