That's the same image I'm using too.
Oh well. Red Hat still works and I don't use the laptop much so no great
loss...
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Digital Wokan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 12:21 PM
To: David Joham
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Installing Mandrake 8 on low memory machine
No. I just used the floppy image "cdrom.img". Sorry for the double
response (yet again), but the "reply-to" still doesn't get set on the
Mandrake Expert list. (Apparently not all "experts" are as lazy or
inattentive to their addressees as I am.)
David Joham wrote:
>
> Did you do anything special to have it ask you to format immediately?
>
> I have to use the boot disk and then choose F1 and then expert or text. It
> loads the kernel, finds the CDROM and then goes into "second stage
install"
> At that point it dies. Going to tty4 (I think) to see the install log
shows
> that it found 48 Meg (correct) and that it isn't enough for the ramdisk.
It
> then shuts down with nothing else I can do.
>
> Thanks for your help...
>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Digital Wokan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 10:14 PM
> To: David Joham
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Installing Mandrake 8 on low memory machine
>
> Interesting. I ran into the RAM problem only attempting to do an FTP
> install. At work, I've set up a 32MB box to act as a newsletter
> server. While it's running 7.2 now due to 8.0's lack of the Sympa
> package (nobody say anything about the Contribs package, I already tried
> that), I did install 8.0 on it originally from a CD-ROM without any
> problems. The only thing it asked was that I let it format and begin
> using the swap partition immediately instead of after the install was
> done.
>
> David Joham wrote:
> >
> > No, the FTP install didn't want to work either. I'm trying a standard
> CDROM
> > install
> >
> > David
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Digital Wokan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 9:49 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [expert] Installing Mandrake 8 on low memory machine
> >
> > Are you trying to do an FTP install?
> >
> > > David Joham wrote:
> > >
> > > Has anyone had any luck installing Mandrake 8 on a machine with
> > > semi-low memory?
> > >
> > > I've got a Toshiba 435 CDS with 48M (the max) and Mandrake complains
> > > that that is not enough to create its install ramdisk. That seems a
> > > little odd to me since 48M for an install should be plenty. Also,
> > > RedHat 7.1 installs fine on the same machine. Finally, I just
> > > installed Mandrake 8 on another laptop with 48M and it worked fine.
> > >
> > > Is there any way to tell Mandrake in the install to simply go ahead
> > > and let me take my chances? What would be different between the two
> > > laptops with the same amount of memory?
> > >
> > > TIA
> > >
> > > David
