Installation problems --- memory error messages
I have had trouble with the installation. My machine is a compaq 486
Aero laptop that is supposed to have 4MB of RAM.
I put in the 1440_boot diskette and start the machine. Nothing
suspicious happens, with the possible exception of the message
eata_dma: No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver still depends on it.
I choose novice mode and put in the 1440_root diskette when asked.
I choose ``first non-SCSI'' as option for where to install the system.
Then the screen displays Preparing /dev/hda
and at the lower left appear the messages
cut: virtual memory exhausted
sed: couldn't allocate meomry
expr: syntax error
cut: virtual memory exhausted
sed: Couldn't allocate memory
and the machine comes to a standstill.
I have also tried doing the installation in custom mode. I think
I have done the steps without getting warning messages up to and including
creation of a boot disk. Then, when I try to reboot, I get a series
of ``out of memory'' messages, along with
cannot run fsck because root is not read-only!
and complaints about a non-existent utmp file.
Thanks for any help. I hope what's involved is something simple.
Charles Blair
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