I have a older 486 that I added a 3gig hard drive from my pentium. At
the time the hard drive had linux on it(slack 4.0) and worked fine in
the pentium system. When I put it in the 486, I removed the old 100 meg
drive and set the hd's parameters in the setup program for the bios. The
machine wouldn't boot on the hd, but would boot from floppy and mounted
the new hd as root partician. The drive was /dev/hdb in the pentium
machine and is /dev/hda in the 486. But very few things would work, and
lilo wouldn't work, just gave a "li" when starting up and froze. So I
tried to reformat and reinstall linux, the hard drive and the cd are
recognised(the cd is also freshly installed), but when I get to the
format portion of the linux setup program it starts diplaying "couldn't
get a free page" and eventially locks up. It has 6 megs ram, unable to
install more.
Any ideas on this?
Dennis
