Installing on a low memory notebook

[Jeppe Buk <buk@imada.ou.dk>]

Hi

I'm trying to install debian gnu/linux 1.3.1 on a Packard Bell Statesman
with 4MB of RAM.

When I insert the debian rescue disk, it never loads the kernel, but only
writes:

boot:
Loading Boot failed: change disks and press any key

with a delay of only 4-5 seconds between Loading and Boot failed. I have
tried booting from a Slackware bootdisk (of unknown origin) with
root=/dev/fd0 option. Now when inserting the debian root disk (low memory
version, lmroot.bin), I can start the setup, but when I get to
installation of the OS kernel, it fails with an error about "./install.sh"
not available.

I have tried the same bootdisk on a stationary PC, and it works perfectly.

Any clues?
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