On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 22:18, Andrew Errington wrote: > Knoppix? (ha ha) Not from stage 1!! With only 8 MB of RAM
> Tomsrtbt should get you going. Good idea. On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 01:04, Joff wrote: > I haven't tried it myself yet, but maybe the Smoothwall distro (its > like a 20MB ISO) sound like it might be worth a look too... Cheers, Joff (Hi while I am at it) no CDR was the killer here! On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 10:13, Helmut Walle wrote: > > Creative Sound Blaster 16 (CT2910, IDE, Panasonic CDROM "IDE like" > > connector) > > This is not one of these SB CD-ROM drives that came with the SB card, > right? They were a bit special, being neither ATAPI nor SCSI... The CDROM works fine when put on a more modern IDE controller. The sound card does have an "IDE like" interface labelled Panasonic/Creative for some weird CDROM drives, that predate my hardware experience! It turns out that the IDE controller on the sound card can only take a single IDE device not two like all more modern IDE controllers. I just put the two HDD's on the IDE controller on the ISA card and left the CDROM on the sound card and then linux could see hda, hdb and hdc whooo!! A 486 with 1 GB of disk ... fear! On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 18:14, David A. Mann wrote: > Thats a good start. I can confirm that your "Killed" problem was > memory-related as I have had exactly the same problem when trying to > install Slackware 8.0 on an 8Mb machine. I seem to recall that my > drive had already been set up with a previous Slackware 3.4 > installation, so I already had swap space available. Yes, as soon as swap was up I didnt get any more "Killed" messages! Thanks for all your help, if anyone has an old ISA 10 Mb/s LAN card, drop me a line, off list of course ..... Mark
