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Re: Image file too large for low memory



The laptop has 256M. I was just thinking of "low memory" as in the first
640K of RAM in x86 memory layout.

I was not using the tftpd-hpa server, so I will try that now and let you
know how it goes. Also, my card has several boot method options,
including PXE and TCP/IP. I was using TCP/IP. Should I try PXE?

/Owen

On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 01:51, Thorsten Sauter wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:04:55AM -0500, Owen B. Mehegan wrote:
> > Node: 00B0D0A42B88
> > DHCP...
> > TFTP............................
> > File transfer error: Image file too large for low memory.
> 
> are you sure, that the error message means the memory for you laptop.
> How many ram is available in this beast? :)
> 
> While playing with tftp and network boot, I'll got this error message on
> many machines (i386, 3com or intel nic). The machines have 32MB and up
> to 512 MB ram, so a small 1.44MB floppy should be small enough to fit
> into the memory.
> 
> Which tftp server you're using? Maybe you should use tftp-hpa, it
> support more options which are required from "modern" network cards
> (modern means intel's view of good network card firmeware :)).
> 
> And maybe you should also try to boot with a simple floppy over the
> network: http://www.rom-o-matic.net/
> 
> Good luck :)
> Thorsten
> 
> btw. I'm currently testing d-i with network boot on my laptop and in
> vmware.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Thorsten Sauter
> <tsauter@gmx.net>
> 
> 				(Is there life after /sbin/halt -p?)
> 




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