WORKAROUND: lowmem installation trouble

1998-10-17 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 08:55:36PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There appears to be a bug in the installation sequence. What happens is that in effect the swap partition doesn't get activated when the system is first booted. Ouch! on a machine already low on memory! I can't remember

Re: lowmem installation trouble

1998-10-15 Thread joost
On 8 Oct 1998, Larry Fletcher wrote: On Oct 06 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install Debian on my 386 w/ 4Megs of RAM and hercules video. Using the lowmem.bin image, here is what happens... I've been trying the same thing. So far I have been able to install Debian

Re: lowmem installation trouble

1998-10-14 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:08:14AM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:01:14PM +0200, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: I've installed Debian 1.3.1r6 on a 386 with 3Megs, EGA display and two 160MB ESDI HD with no difficulties. Just had to compile a kernel with make zImage [snip]

Re: lowmem installation trouble

1998-10-10 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 04:44:14PM -0800, Larry Fletcher wrote: On Oct 06 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install Debian on my 386 w/ 4Megs of RAM and [snip] I've been trying the same thing. So far I have been able to install Debian Hamm from 1.44 disks using the Installing

lowmem installation trouble

1998-10-09 Thread Larry Fletcher
On Oct 06 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install Debian on my 386 w/ 4Megs of RAM and hercules video. Using the lowmem.bin image, here is what happens... I've been trying the same thing. So far I have been able to install Debian Hamm from 1.44 disks using the Installing

Re: lowmem installation trouble

1998-10-07 Thread Bedrock LAN Administrator
I've had a similar hardware configuration running linux before, but that was Slackware 3.0 (when *it* was considered NEW). I've not tried Debian with only 4M of RAM (and hercules card), but I can tell you that Debian 2.0 liked my 386 with 8M RAM. The Debian installation process, however, does

lowmem installation trouble

1998-10-06 Thread Nathan Hendler
I am trying to install Debian on my 386 w/ 4Megs of RAM and hercules video. Using the lowmem.bin image, here is what happens... boot: [I hit Enter.] Loading lowmemrd.bin ... That's as far as she goes. It hangs there, all night. I have to hard reboot. Using the resc1440.bin image I get...