Re: PS/2 and RedHat Disks

1998-06-17 Thread Christopher Fisk
Unfortunately I don't have much knowledge about loadlin, I'll look for some info and letcha know whut i find. Chris On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, LT wrote: Chris, I haven't tried that! But I am not using lilo because I am using DosLinux and that doesn't appear to be there. Do you know of any

Re: PS/2 and RedHat Disks

1998-06-17 Thread Christopher Fisk
Juat did some searching, seems you can just add "mem=16M" (no quotes) to the command line. Lemme know how it turns out. Chris Chris, I haven't tried that! But I am not using lilo because I am using DosLinux and that doesn't appear to be there. Do you know of any switches for loadlin?

PS/2 and RedHat Disks

1998-06-16 Thread LT
To Whom That This is Read by, My computer is a PS/2 with ESDI drives (i think, they use eda when mounting root), and 24 meg of ram, and up to this point I have been incredibly unsuccseful in installing linux on this computer, without partitioning. I have tried ZipSlack and currently I

Re: PS/2 and RedHat Disks

1998-06-16 Thread LT
Mike, I was e-mailing back and forth with Pat Volkerding, a main guy with Slackware, and he led me to believe it could be done. I am currently getting tripped up on too much ram. Odd problem, 'eh. Does anyone know if Mike's statement is true though, I may be wrong. LT ps - i

Re: PS/2 and RedHat Disks

1998-06-16 Thread LT
I booted DosLinux using the bzimage kernel (i didnt find any at the mca site recommend that worked, thanks though, i may need that at a later point) and here is the error that I got which may help you people who know Linux deduce what is wrong and what I need to do to fix it. PS/2 ESDI: DMA

Re: PS/2 and RedHat Disks

1998-06-16 Thread LT
Actually I think I have a kernel that may work (slackware/kernel/ibmmca.s/bzImage or something like that), but the kernel somehow gets caught up in my 24 meg of RAM, and I can't take out one of the 8meg cards. Any Ideas? Also is there a distribution of RedHat (or any commercial-ish

Re: PS/2 and RedHat Disks

1998-06-16 Thread Christopher Fisk
Something you've prolly tried but when lilo comes up try appending mem=16M to force linux to only use 16M HTH Chris On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, LT wrote: I booted DosLinux using the bzimage kernel (i didnt find any at the mca site recommend that worked, thanks though, i may need that at a later

Re: PS/2 and RedHat Disks

1998-06-16 Thread LT
Chris, I haven't tried that! But I am not using lilo because I am using DosLinux and that doesn't appear to be there. Do you know of any switches for loadlin? Thanks, LT At 03:46 PM 6/16/98 -0400, you wrote: Something you've prolly tried but when lilo comes up

Re: PS/2 and RedHat Disks

1998-06-16 Thread Mike Edwards
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, LT wrote: To Whom That This is Read by, My computer is a PS/2 with ESDI drives (i think, they use eda when Last I heard, Linux won't run on the PS/2--at least not the latest kernels. Mike == Mike Edwards, MIS Edwards Graphic Arts, Inc.

Re: PS/2 and RedHat Disks

1998-06-16 Thread Mike Edwards
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, LT wrote: Mike, I was e-mailing back and forth with Pat Volkerding, a main guy with Slackware, and he led me to believe it could be done. I am currently getting tripped up on too much ram. Odd problem, 'eh. Does anyone know if Mike's statement is true though, I

Re: PS/2 and RedHat Disks

1998-06-16 Thread Lawrence Houston
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Mike Edwards wrote: On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, LT wrote: Mike, I was e-mailing back and forth with Pat Volkerding, a main guy with Slackware, and he led me to believe it could be done. I am currently getting tripped up on too much ram. Odd problem, 'eh. Does