Bob Nielsen (nielsen@oz.net) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 03:14:23PM -0400, David Sanders wrote: > > I'm trying to install Woody on a 486/50 with 8MB RAM & SCSI CD/HD. > > I boot with a DOS floppy, go to CD:\install and execute boot.bat. > > Everything seems to be working until it outputs something like: > > RAMDISK: Found compressed image at sector 0 > > Then it hangs and locks up the machine requiring a CTRL-ALT-DEL > > > > Any suggested remedy? > > > > David Sanders > > david@sandersweb.net > > http://www.sandersweb.net > > I believe 16 MB is the minimum nowadays, at least with ramdisk. Actually, it's 12MB: 2.3 Memory and Disk Space Requirements You must have at least 12MB of memory and 110MB of hard disk space. For a minimal console-based system (all standard packages), 250MB is required. If you want to install a reasonable amount of software, including the X Window System, and some development programs and libraries, you'll need at least 400MB. For a more or less complete installation, you'll need around 800MB. To install everything available in Debian, you'll probably need around 2 GB. Actually, installing everything doesn't even make sense, since some packages conflict with others. Taken from <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-hardware-req.en.html#s2.3> FWIW (and IIRC) potato will install on x86 systems with 8MB or less. I supposed you could install potato and dist-upgrade to woody. HTH, Ron -- Email: <rbf@farrer.net> or <rbf@debian.org> Home: <http://farrer.net/~rbf/> Debian GNU/Linux on PowerPC: <http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/>
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