Re: Help please!

[Oleg Krivosheev <kriol@fnal.gov>]

On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, mr anonym wrote:

> Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 19:00:11 +0100 (CET)
> From: mr anonym <anonym4@hotmail.COM>
> To: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org
> Subject: Help please!
> Resent-Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 18:00:51 +0000
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> I'm having trouble installing Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 on my computer and I 
> wonder if someone can help me.
> My computer:
> 486-JA
> 4 MB RAM
> 150 MB of free space
> No soundcard/modem installed
> OS at the moment Win 3.11 and DOS 6.2
> 
> Im downloading files from 
> ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/Debian-1.3/disks-i386/current/
> 
> I have reset the comp with the "rescue-floppy" and everything seemed 
> fine.When i pressed enter at the boot prompt after a while this message 
> came up:
> 
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0

i believe 4M is too small for standard installation
procedure. Look/ask about special procedure for low-mem systems

> And the computer stops.
> Anyone know what this means?


regards

OK


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