Re: 386 or 486 machine
OK - i see it can be installed ... but with no less than 16 meg of RAM
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 07:12:58PM -0500, Elizabeth Barham wrote:
> "Joyce, Matthew" <MJoyce@ccia.org.au> writes:
>
> > I was able to install woody v3 on a 486/16mb/500mb the other day.
>
> I'm of the impression that 16MB is required for the Woody install. The
> machine I installed (and... am... installing...) has only 8MB.
How you made it? The root.bin disk dosent load RAM disk image as for me.
And i got 3 different machines - one 386 and two 486. no one loads
RAM disk
> Here is a general question though and hopefully the new kernel that is
> being installed while I write this will remedy the problem.
>
> This new machine is to be the firewall/router for the net connection
> and the new kernel for it has iptables, nat, and the advanced routing
> configurations enabled.
>
> The first build, though, had CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_LARGE_TABLES set, and
> after the TCP notice in the kernel boot messages (TCP, ICMP, etc), I
> was informed that something like 256 buckets were made, 4k. Then it
> began looking for an internet device and modprobe became stuck in a
> loop because it continued to run out of memory.
>
> So, this new build does not have CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_LARGE_TABLES set, and
> it is still installing so it may be like an hour before I can attempt
> to boot up into it to check again, but should this take care of the
> problem?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Elizabeth
>
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