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Hello everyone:
This is my first posting to this
newsgroup.
I have the following system:
386SX-25
math copro
4mb ram
1.44 fdd
120 mb hdd
4x atapi ide cdrom
know ram is cheap but I want to do this because I
understand it can be done and I want to take on the challenge. (Kind of
like the famous question: why do men climb mountains? Because they're
there.) I realize that there are mini-distros that would install
easily on dos via umsdos but that's not what I'm trying to accomplish. I
would like to install a full distro on a ext2 file system without any dos
partitions left over. When I'm done I just want to have two partitions -
one native linux partition and one linux swap
partition.
I have Debian 2.1 (2_1_11.1-1) on cd. I read
the low memory installation instructions and I tried using lowmem.bin as the
initial installation floppy. It starts okay by autodetecting the hardware
and then the system returns the following error message and
freezes:
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
block-major-22, errno=2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
block-major-22, errno=2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
block-major-8, errno=2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
block-major-8, errno=2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
block-major-8, errno=2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
block-major-8, errno=2
At this point I'm assuming that the problem has
something to do with the low memory constraint.
I'm a newbie so please be patient with me and any
dumb questions. Thank you in advance.
Rick
Dawson |