Re: installing debian

[Anton J.Gamel <gamel@anna.anatomie.uni-freiburg.de>]

Hi all !

>On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 12:18:25PM +1100, Corbishley Family wrote:
>> [Debian via] floppy to an old 386 with 4MB ram and 120MB hard disk.
>> ... partitioned hard disk into Linux, Linux swap, Minux/Linux).
>> ... "Initialize and Activate a Swap Partition"...
>
> ... a bug in the low memory installation. A workaround is described
>at ... http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/lowmem.html

Laptop Austin, 386SXL-25, Phenix 1.05 Bios, 640k+3Mb RAM, 540Mb WD
The lowmem special menue (1.partition,2.init.swap,3.init root,4.reboot)
A) 3. does NOT copy the root partition to /dev/hda5 (minix) "it hangs"
B) I am not shure wether 2. initializes the swap on /dev/hda3 because
   I don't get a message about what was done when initialization finishes.
C) I don't get an alt-f2-console at this point.
(B+C as it was usual in bo lowmem)

I can do a floppy boot via the rescue-disk (boot: rescue root=/dev/fd0)
but I end up with "Unable to open an initial console"

Any Ideas?

Greetings

Anton

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