Debian 1.2 install problem - short memory
I have been trying to install 1.2 on a Thinkpad 500 with 4 meg of memory
without success. The machine had Slackware working on it, but the rescue
disk fails on boot. It last message is:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
And then hangs. I suspect the problem is a lack of memory. The rescue
disk reports memory as:
Memory: 1604k/4288k available (1044k kernel, 384k reserved, 672k data)
By comparison, the slackware bare.i boot disk reports:
Memory: 2828k/4288k available (688k kernel, 384k reserved, 388k data)
and the previous custom kernel was similarly small.
I tried the new.resq1440.bin with similar results. floppy=thinkpad, and
mem=xxx, and other attempts at boot parameters make no difference, other
than to elicit a slight variation of:
Couldn't get a free page . . .
out of Memory
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My guess is that the rescue disk kernel is just too large for a machine
with so little memory. My expectation is to get the system going from
floppy, and then add parts with either SLIP, PLIP, or PCMCIA ethernet -
depending on how well things work.
If the above interpretation is correct, is there any chance we could have
a low memory version of the rescue disk for similar machines. I would
put the disk together myself, except that I need a working debian system
to install the package on to make a new disk.
George
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