Re: can't boot linux

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be>]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:29:11PM +0100, Lo'oRiS il Kabukimono wrote:
> i can't boot linux using my IIci.
> i'm using the macinstall.tar.gz downloaded some days ago, tried both under
> system 7.6 (on hard disk) and system 7.5.3 (floppy).
> i tried both the included penguin19 and penguin17.
> 
> the problem is this:
> often it simply won't boot saying that can't allocate enough ram (is 8MB
> really too few?).

Usually not, but make sure to disable unused control panels and other
stuff. Else, those could take up too much RAM, making it unavailable for
Linux.

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