Is this a slow reply or what? I've been playing with some old computer at home too. How much memory have you got in the 386? Debian needs 12MB of ram to run. (got that from the installation menu) You can get away with less memory if you mount the rescue disk in floppy drive 0 and have the root disk in another.
HTH, Lester On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 09:38:42PM +1000, Ken Caldwell wrote: > <quote who="Peter Hardy"> > > > On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 20:28, Ken Caldwell wrote: > > > I have an old computer with a '386 CPU on which I thought I would > > > > Probably clutching at straws here, but does it have a math coprocessor? > Yes. > > Adding "no387" to the lilo boot prompt might help in the case that it > > does have one which isn't working properly. > This did not appear to have any effect ie the failure was as before. > > > For the "compact" flavour the following appears after entering the root > > > disk: > > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > > > crc error <5> VFS: Insert root floppy and press enter > > *snip* > > > least once so the memory is probably OK. Changing the floppy drive > > > seems to make no difference. > > > > Have you tried different floppy disks, and it could also be corrupt > > images. > Yes. Tried three different sets of disks. The two mentioned in my > original posting and also a set of "vanilla" 2.2r2 > > > I have been unsuccessful in copying the kernel from toms disk. I can > > > mount it as a minix filesystem on my desktop computer and ls shows the > > > kernel, bz2bzImage, but I can't copy it to my hard disk. The error > > > messages say something about trying to read past the end of the > > > filesystem. > I solved this by unpacking toms onto the hard drive and I was then able > to get a copy of the kernel. I renamed this kernel to linux.bin and > substituted it for the one ont the "vanilla" set but when I tried to use > it I experienced the same failure as with the original kernel. > > My current theory is that the compressed root filesystem is being read > into memory OK but the decompression is failing. Tomorrow I will move > the hard drive to another computer and do a base install then see if it > will work in the 386. > > Ken > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
