Re: Lockup during install.

[Bernard URBAN <Bernard.URBAN@meteo.fr>]

>>>>> "Chris" == R Chris Ross <CHRIS@seitz.com> writes:

    Chris>      Over the weekend I attempted to install from the
    Chris> floppy set onto my NEC Versa S laptop.  (4 Meg ram 42 Meg
                                                    ^^^^^^^^^
This is definitely too small. I could install Debian on a 5 MB Ram
machine, but a trial on a 4 MB Ram PC also exhibited strange lockups.

    Chris> hd partition 8 Meg swap partition).  It went thru the boot
    Chris> disk fine but locked several times on the root disk.  The
    Chris> only thing I have been able to do is partition the drive.
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yes, it stops after that in my case also.

    Chris> I'm extremely new to linux but I had a Slackware system
    Chris> installed and it ran fine.  Before installing Debian I
    Chris> removed the slackware partitions then set them up again
    Chris> using Debian's fdisk.

B. Urban