On Thursday 25 October 2001 07:20 am, you wrote: > Hi Guys, > I've checked the archives and I fear there may be no answer to this. > I'm trying to install 8.1 on a 40mb ram laptop. As has been stated in the > past, ramdisk fails and the installation dies shortly after level 2 (just > after drakX but before anything happens on tty5). > Has anybody, therefore, been able to install either 8 or 8.1 on a Toshiba > Satellite Pro with only 40mb? > I've tried vgalo/text/text expert installs, but none of them work, ie. all > fail at 2nd level. > The machine is already running 8.0 so is there any feasable way of doing > an upgrade on a "live" system, without going through RPM hell? Even > though I'd have rather done a fresh install.
I accomplished an install on my Toshiba Satellite Pro by placing the hard drive in a desktop machine and installing there. Just remember to manually install the PCMCIA rpm. Hoyt
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