Hello:

I am trying to get tomsrtbt (1.7.259) installed on the hard disk of an old
laptop (486, 16MB ram).

I have closely followed the instruction on
http://toms.net/tomsrtbt/199812/msg00022.html :however, I am still having
problems.  I get an error message that says
[
    UH-OH, Not Enough Memory
]
and then something PCMCIA something....
It doesn't look to me like the settings.s script is being executed, I don't
ever see the "Penguin" graphic that I get with a boot to floppy.  Does
anyone know what could cause this?
(I have settings.s, rc.custom, zImage and map in my hard disk root
directory -- see rc.M below).


Here's what I've done so far:

1) boot tomsrtbt
done.

2) fdisk to taste
1 linux native (120 mb, hda1)
1 linux swap (20 mb, hda2)

3) mkfs as desired, ext2 or minix, ext2 strongly recommended.
   (note: tomsrtbt does not include fsck.minix.  If you use a
   minix filesystem, tomsrtbt does not have tools to fix it).
used mke2fs

4) mount /dev/fd0u1722 on /fl
done.

5) cp -vaf /fl/ /mnt
done.

6) umount /fl
done.

7) mount <whatever> on /mnt
did this before 5)

8) 'cp -vafx / /usr/ /mnt' is I think the simplest way to do it.
done.

9) Edit /mnt/etc/fstab to point to the right filesystems
Looks like:
/dev/hda1               /                    ext2    defaults        1 1
/dev/hda2               swap            swap    defaults        0    0

10 Edit /mnt/etc/rc.M
Looks like:
#!/bin/sh
BT=1
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin
. /settings.s
update &
. /rc.custom


11 cp /mnt/etc/lilo.conf.in /mnt/etc/lilo.conf and edit it
couldn't find lilo.conf.in, but made one:
> # LILO configuration file
> #
> # Start LILO global section
> boot=/dev/hda
> read-only
> # End LILO global section
> # Linux bootable partition config begins
> image = /zImage
>   root = /dev/hda1
>   label = zImage
>   read-only

12 learn lilo.  use lilo.  install lilo on the hard drive.
executed lilo -v -r /mnt
before I could do this, I had to copy boot.b into a directory (which I
created): /mnt/boot, otherwise lilo complained about not being able to
create a boot.3001 file in /mnt/boot

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong here?  I've really tried to exhaust all
potential options before posting to the list, as I know that a hard disk
install is not the focus of tomsrtbt.  Apologies up front for that, but I've
really done everything that I know to do.

Thanks for your help,

Andy Lemmon


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