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. This is

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 perhaps? I doubt

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 a problem with

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

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 scarletd...@gmail.com 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

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 scarletd...@gmail.com 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

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

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 your