Re: Debian on a Super Lean Laptop Part I - Making it Work

2010-04-24 Thread deloptes
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 03:24:31PM +0200, deloptes wrote: >> Joey Hess wrote: >> >> > Scarletdown wrote: >> >> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-486 >> >> [Linux-initrd @ 0x10b3000, 0x76cdf9 bytes] >> >> >> >> After that, she's locked up tight, and all I can do is power off

Re: Debian on a Super Lean Laptop Part I - Making it Work

2010-04-23 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 03:24:31PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > > Scarletdown wrote: > >> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-486 > >> [Linux-initrd @ 0x10b3000, 0x76cdf9 bytes] > >> > >> After that, she's locked up tight, and all I can do is power off. > >> > >> This is obviously

Re: Debian on a Super Lean Laptop Part I - Making it Work

2010-04-23 Thread deloptes
Joey Hess wrote: > Scarletdown wrote: >> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-486 >> [Linux-initrd @ 0x10b3000, 0x76cdf9 bytes] >> >> After that, she's locked up tight, and all I can do is power off. >> >> This is obviously a problem with initrd.  Set too large for such a low >> memory system perhap

Re: Debian on a Super Lean Laptop Part I - Making it Work

2010-04-21 Thread Joey Hess
Scarletdown wrote: > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-486 >   [Linux-initrd @ 0x10b3000, 0x76cdf9 bytes] > > After that, she's locked up tight, and all I can do is power off. > > This is obviously a problem with initrd.  Set too large for such a low memory > system perhaps? I doubt it, since you

Re: Debian on a Super Lean Laptop Part I - Making it Work

2010-04-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 06:30:58PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > This may, at first glance, appear to be an exercise into insanity, but it is > a rather important little project to me. > > I have this old Toshiba Satellite laptop (P-120, 6GB had drive, and a > whoppong 24MB RAM) that is currently ru

Re: Debian on a Super Lean Laptop Part I - Making it Work

2010-04-21 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Scarletdown wrote: > Damn Small is fine for a live distro. However, I did not like having to > jump through so many hoops to get it configured the way I wanted (even > permanently changing the hostname was a big hassle). just wondering, best reason there is havin

Re: Debian on a Super Lean Laptop Part I - Making it Work

2010-04-21 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Scarletdown wrote: > ...but now I would like to make it dual boot with Debian. However, the laptop > hangs when I try to boot into Linux. Specifically, the last thing shown on > the screen before nothing else happens is: im interested to know why your choosing de

Debian on a Super Lean Laptop Part I - Making it Work

2010-04-21 Thread Scarletdown
This may, at first glance, appear to be an exercise into insanity, but it is a rather important little project to me. I have this old Toshiba Satellite laptop (P-120, 6GB had drive, and a whoppong 24MB RAM) that is currently running 98SE Lite. It runs adequately on Windows, but now I would like t