Re: Woody on a 486/50
On (06/09/02 13:43), Bob Nielsen wrote:
> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 13:43:47 -0700
> From: Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net>
> To: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: Woody on a 486/50
>
> 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.
>
>
Would booting with Tom's Rescue on a floppy, making a swap partion
and then booting with Debian floppy overcome this ?
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