Re: Low memory install on an IBM Thinkpad 700

Since the debian bootdisks are SYSLINUX disks, just mount them (MSDOS FAT12 filesystem), take the kernel out of the tecra bootdisk and copy it over the kernel in the lowmem bootdisk. This is how a friend of mine which installed 2.0 did on his tp700. Regards raph > On Fri, 19 May 2000, A.C. Alme

Re: Low memory install on an IBM Thinkpad 700

On Fri, 19 May 2000, A.C. Almeida wrote: > > we are talking about a ThinkPad 700; normal lowmem-bootdisk won't boot, > because of Micro Channel and ESDI driver. TP 700 needs the special one > for Tecras and there is no "lowmem" image available... > DOH! ;) I would guess the only thing you could

Re: Low memory install on an IBM Thinkpad 700

Alexander Clouter schrieb: On Thu, 18 May 2000, A.C. Almeida wrote: > > But newer (>2.x) debian bootdisks won't boot with 4MB. Try debian 1.3.1 > and the patched bootdisk at ftp://ftp.dgmicro.com >   . > nonsense.  I've booted up a old 486SL-33 with 4Mb laptop with the low

Re: Low memory install on an IBM Thinkpad 700

On Thu, 18 May 2000, A.C. Almeida wrote: > > But newer (>2.x) debian bootdisks won't boot with 4MB. Try debian 1.3.1 > and the patched bootdisk at ftp://ftp.dgmicro.com > . > nonsense. I've booted up a old 486SL-33 with 4Mb laptop with the low memory boot disks. works f

Re: Low memory install on an IBM Thinkpad 700

Hi, your problem is fdisk -l . fdisk doesn't find any harddrive; you have to enter fdisk /dev/eda. But standard debian bootdisks fail after first restart. See debian-bug #62623... But newer (>2.x) debian bootdisks won't boot with 4MB. Try debian 1.3.1 and the patched bootdisk at ftp://ftp.dgmicr

Low memory install on an IBM Thinkpad 700

The trouble I have encountered centers around the microchannel ESDI hard drive controller. I must first give props to the folks at Debian, as their loader was the only one to correctly fish the hard drive geometry correctly from the bios/controller, every other distro I've tried gives bogus