I recently installed a 524 mb drive in my old 386 laptop. I had to
upgrade the BIOS first, but it works.
I can format the drive with DOS, although MSD reports it as being 500 mb
instead of 524.
When I went to format it with Slackware 3.1 it stalls. I tried it with
the text.gz root image first, but after a couple hours (had to do
something else) I figured there was trouble. I tried it again with the
color.gz image thinking there might have been something wrong with the
first root image. same problem. I was attempting to create a 32 mb swap
with the rest as one big / partition.
I need to use Slackware since it is the only dist. that I can install
from floppies, as this old 386 laptop does not have a CD drive, nor do I
have another Linux system that I can network with.
Any clues on this one? Do I need to make smaller partitions? A newer
version of Slackware maybe? Could it be a BIOS problem?
Dave
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