WORKAROUND: lowmem installation trouble

1998-10-17 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 08:55:36PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There appears to be a bug in the installation sequence. What happens is > that in effect the swap partition doesn't get activated when the system is > first booted. Ouch! on a machine already low on memory! > > I can't rememb

Re: lowmem installation trouble

1998-10-15 Thread joost
On 8 Oct 1998, Larry Fletcher wrote: > On Oct 06 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am trying to install Debian on my 386 w/ 4Megs of RAM and > > hercules video. Using the lowmem.bin image, here is what > > happens... > > I've been trying the same thing. So far I have been able to install

Re: lowmem installation trouble

1998-10-14 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:08:14AM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:01:14PM +0200, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > > I've installed Debian 1.3.1r6 on a 386 with 3Megs, EGA display and two 160MB > > ESDI HD with no difficulties. Just had to compile a kernel with make zImage [sni

Re: lowmem installation trouble

1998-10-10 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 04:44:14PM -0800, Larry Fletcher wrote: > On Oct 06 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am trying to install Debian on my 386 w/ 4Megs of RAM and [snip] > I've been trying the same thing. So far I have been able to install > Debian Hamm from 1.44 disks using the "Installi

lowmem installation trouble

1998-10-09 Thread Larry Fletcher
On Oct 06 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to install Debian on my 386 w/ 4Megs of RAM and > hercules video. Using the lowmem.bin image, here is what > happens... I've been trying the same thing. So far I have been able to install Debian Hamm from 1.44 disks using the "Installing D

Re: lowmem installation trouble

1998-10-07 Thread Bedrock LAN Administrator
I've had a similar hardware configuration running linux before, but that was Slackware 3.0 (when *it* was considered NEW). I've not tried Debian with only 4M of RAM (and hercules card), but I can tell you that Debian 2.0 liked my 386 with 8M RAM. The Debian installation process, however, does t

lowmem installation trouble

1998-10-06 Thread Nathan Hendler
I am trying to install Debian on my 386 w/ 4Megs of RAM and hercules video. Using the lowmem.bin image, here is what happens... boot: [I hit Enter.] Loading lowmemrd.bin ... That's as far as she goes. It hangs there, all night. I have to hard reboot. Using the resc1440.bin image I get... S