On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Robin Chatterjee wrote:
> You may be running out of swap space. you probably need to have a
> permanent swap file available.
> Anyone with better experience ?
> Try using an older version of linux like 1.2
or slackware. read its LOWMEM.TXT which tells you how to install
slack on a system with 4mb or less.
However enabling a swap space of about 32 mb as suggested by
robin might be good solution.
Bye and best of luck.
>
> ajitpal singh wrote:
> >
> > I was installing "redhat linux 5.2" on a 386 machine with 4 mb ram .
> > during booting from the floppy disk the the system hangs in between
> > and the last message displayed is
> > " RAMDISK : Compressed image found at block 0 "
> > when i increase the ram to 8 mb it boots up.
> > where is the problem
> > doesn't linux work in 4 m ram.
> > during installing micro linux the same problem comes up.
> > help me
> >
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