The other alternative, is to pull out the hard disk drive from the laptop, buy an adaptor to match it to a standard PC ide interface, and load mandrake on via another machine with the laptop harddrive on it..
I have done that before. The other alternative is to get more ram, nowdays laptop ram isn't that expensive either. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of RichardA Sent: Thursday, 29 August 2002 12:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Install 8.2 on old laptop Andy Davidson, Wednesday 28 August 2002 01:28: > I tried to install 8.2 (and 8.1) on an older NEC laptop and got the > following messages: > in second stage install > install exited abnormally :-( > sending termination signals...done > sending kill signals...done > unmounting filesystems: > /proc > /tmp/image > you may safely reboot your systems > > I suspect this is because of the limited memory, shown by these last > entries in the logs (alt-F3): > Total Memory: 40 Mbytes > warning: ramdisk is not possible due to low mem! > stage1. disconnecting life support systems > second stage install running (DrakX v 1.684 built Sat Mar 16 12:21:08 > 2002) > > This is on an NEC Versa 4000C, 75 MHz Pentium (I *said* it was old! > > :-)) Am I doomed to install Mandrake or is there some magic boot > > parameter that will save me? > > andy I think I've read that MDK 7.2(?) is still on some mirrors - it's of about the same vintage as your hardware. RichardA
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