install troubles
Hey there folks. New (potential) Linux user here; having trouble getting
Debian to install on my dinosaur system, and haven't been able to locate
anything in the troubleshooting guides or user docs to help out.
Upon booting from the Rescue floppy, everything works fine for a while
(lots of failed to locate cdrom messages and such) until it gets to:
Partition check:
hda: hda1
RAMDisk: Compressed image found at block 0
Couldn't get a free page...
out of memoryVFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem)
init: cache '/etc/ld.so.cache' is corrupt
At which point it goes no further. The machine is a 486-33 (intel) with
120meg IDE drive (currently formated for dos 5.0), SVGA, a few other
random periphrials. The boot disk is a 3 1/2 floppy and I've tried making
several just in case it was a data error of some sort. My first guess is
that it's trying to make a RAM disk and then running out of memory in my
paltry 4 megs of ram; however I was unable to locate any boot options for
disabling this, and I have no idea if that's really it being that I know
next to nothing about Linux. It is version 2.0.27 of Debian. Any
thoughts or perhaps pointers to documentation which adresses this
appreciated.
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