Re: difficulty installing 5.3-R i386 - how to check RAM

Gabrielle Harrison Paul van den Bergen wrote: OK, thanks for the info... now for the solution... I have more than 16 MB of ram available but it does nto seem to play well together or there is a problem with some of the chips. How do I trouble shoot my RAM chips? for instance, if I swap the 2

Re: difficulty installing 5.3-R i386 - how to check RAM

On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 21:02:27 -0500, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gabrielle Harrison Paul van den Bergen wrote: OK, thanks for the info... now for the solution... I have more than 16 MB of ram available but it does nto seem to play well together or there is a problem with some of the

difficulty installing 5.3-R i386

Hi all, I have an old old pentium, scsi HDD + floppy + CDROM, 16 MB of somewhat dubious ram... I have 5.3R CDs 1 and 2 I have 3 seemingly working floppies (after writing to 6 disks... ofcourse!) boot goes like this... boot disk. kern1 kern2 boot boot screen with about 8 options, none of which

Re: difficulty installing 5.3-R i386

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 09:29:02PM +1000, Gabrielle Harrison Paul van den Bergen wrote: Hi all, I have an old old pentium, scsi HDD + floppy + CDROM, 16 MB of somewhat dubious ram... I don't think 16MB RAM is enough to install 5.x You probably need to increase the RAM. I have 5.3R

Re: difficulty installing 5.3-R i386

On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:34:01 +0400, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an old old pentium, scsi HDD + floppy + CDROM, 16 MB of somewhat dubious ram... I don't think 16MB RAM is enough to install 5.x You probably need to increase the RAM. strange, i've got the same error and it was

Re: difficulty installing 5.3-R i386

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 03:47:32PM +0400, Michael Lednev wrote: On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:34:01 +0400, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an old old pentium, scsi HDD + floppy + CDROM, 16 MB of somewhat dubious ram... I don't think 16MB RAM is enough to install 5.x You probably

Re: difficulty installing 5.3-R i386

On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:27:21 +0400, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that is normal. After installation you have got a swap configured and the system can use it if the physical RAM is not sufficient. During installation you do not have any swap available and therefore the RAM must

Re: difficulty installing 5.3-R i386

Michael Lednev wrote: On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:27:21 +0400, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that is normal. After installation you have got a swap configured and the system can use it if the physical RAM is not sufficient. During installation you do not have any swap available and