Cool, I thought it might be that, but I just wasn't sure. He's only got 8 MB ?!! Can you believe they even made computers with that much ;-).
What's the work around? Is there any way to copy the floppies directly onto the hard drive without being on a network (he doesn't have a modem/nic for it) and then just doing it from the hard drive? Does that even eliminate the memory problem or do I need to tell him to pick up some memory? Perhaps grab one of my slink disks and install that then dist-upgrade? What do you think? TIA, Jesse At Thu, 22 Feb 2001 08:19:34 -0800 , Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Jesse Goerz wrote: >> >> I'm trying to help a friend of mine install Debian 2.2r0 onto an IBM Thinkpad >> 365XD. It boots the rescue disk just fine using the default options, but >> when I try to boot the second floppy (root.bin) it gives me the following >> error: >> >> VM: do_try_to_free_pages > >system is out of memory. known kernel bug(started in 2.2.11) how much >memory >do you have? the lowest end machine ive ever installed debian 2.2 on is >a 64mb machine. > >nate > >-- >::: >ICQ: 75132336 >http://www.aphroland.org/ >http://www.linuxpowered.net/ >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours!
