Bug#195955: problem installing woody on a old pc
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 05:52:13PM +0200, Toniolo Athos wrote:
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: woody stable 3.0.23-2002-05-21
>
> flavor: vanilla
> architecture: i386
> model: AMD Am5X86
> memory: 12M
> scsi: absent
> cd-rom: absent
> network card: absent
> pcmcia: absent
>
> Hi All, I tried to install Debian 3.0 on my old PC with 12M of RAM and no CD-ROM.
> I placed the rescue floppy in the floppy drive and I pressed Enter at the boot: prompt and it started to read the root floppy... but it didn't end!
> It seemed a memory problem... so I tried to use the "linux mem=12m" at the boot: prompt.
> I got a lot of errors because "there are not enaugh memory: only 9M".
>
> I checked my BIOS setting (shadow ram disabled) and I'm sure that the memory is working (640Kb base + 11Mb extended when booting).
>
> Maybe I have to use some boot option?
>
> Thanks in advance for your assistance.
>
> Athos
You may need to use potato on this machine. I think there was a
low-memory installation section in that install manual. Or possibly
just try the compact flavor kernel.
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