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Re: Installing 2.2 on a large memory system.



It is bad practice to respond to your own posts, but I will make an
exception for this one.

The problem got fixed by installing 2.2r3.

	Haim.

Haim Dimermanas wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>  I am trying to install Potato (2.2) on a system with 1Gb of RAM (Dell
> 6350). It gives me crap when the kernel loads. The crap is: Kernel stops
> loading, screen goes black when it tries to detect IDE devices.
> 
>  I had this problem before with Dells with 1GB of RAM. I fixed it by
> removing some RAM, perform the install and put the RAM back (after
> recompiling a fresh kernel).
> 
>  In this case, I can't take the RAM off. I need to modify the kernel
> contained in the boot disk (and in the basic packages I guess) so that I
> can install the damn thing.
>



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