I'm trying to help a friend of mine install Debian 2.2r0 onto an IBM Thinkpad
365XD. It boots the rescue disk just fine using the default options, but
when I try to boot the second floppy (root.bin) it gives me the following
error:
VM: do_try_to_free_pages
and then something about modprobe
Jesse Goerz wrote:
I'm trying to help a friend of mine install Debian 2.2r0 onto an IBM Thinkpad
365XD. It boots the rescue disk just fine using the default options, but
when I try to boot the second floppy (root.bin) it gives me the following
error:
VM: do_try_to_free_pages
system is
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 08:19:34 -0800, Nate Amsden said:
system is out of memory. known kernel bug(started in 2.2.11) how much
memory
do you have? the lowest end machine ive ever installed debian 2.2 on is
a 64mb machine.
I installed Debian on a ThinkPad 560 with only 8MB RAM. It
Cool, I thought it might be that, but I just wasn't sure. He's only got 8 MB
?!! Can you believe they even made computers with that much ;-).
What's the work around? Is there any way to copy the floppies directly onto
the hard drive without being on a network (he doesn't have a modem/nic for
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