I have had trouble with the installation. My machine is a compaq 486 Aero laptop that is supposed to have 4MB of RAM.
I put in the 1440_boot diskette and start the machine. Nothing suspicious happens, with the possible exception of the message eata_dma: No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver still depends on it. I choose novice mode and put in the 1440_root diskette when asked. I choose ``first non-SCSI'' as option for where to install the system. Then the screen displays Preparing /dev/hda and at the lower left appear the messages cut: virtual memory exhausted sed: couldn't allocate meomry expr: syntax error cut: virtual memory exhausted sed: Couldn't allocate memory and the machine comes to a standstill. I have also tried doing the installation in custom mode. I think I have done the steps without getting warning messages up to and including creation of a boot disk. Then, when I try to reboot, I get a series of ``out of memory'' messages, along with cannot run fsck because root is not read-only! and complaints about a non-existent utmp file. Thanks for any help. I hope what's involved is something simple. Charles Blair
