Re: Woody on 486 problem
> From: "Mirko Scurk"
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user
> Subject: Woody on 486 problem
> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:01:56 +0100 (CET)
> Hi!
Hallo, Mirko.
> I'm trying to install woody on Digital Venturis 466 486DX66, 540MB HDD,
> 20MB RAM, CD-ROM, S3 Turbo VGA 1MB and EtherWorks III ISA network adapter.
Pretty old metal, isn't it (:?
> The first stage of install went fine but after installing lilo and
> rebooting I never got prompt. There are many errors:
I think you haven't much RAM. Did you created swap, at least 100M to
start with?
> Read-only file system
> nothing in /proc - not mounted?
> lot of
> /lb/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4 ...... cannot create .... Read-only file system
> /lb/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4 ...... init_module: No such device
Maybe too much modules selected in default initrd, try to reduce this.
> and finally
>
> INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>
> When I log to second virtual terminal I get message:
> mesg: /dev/tty2: Read-only file system
>
> Any sugestions, please?
Init scripts ran out of memory. Try this HDD with modern machine, i.e.
128M RAM and kernel+initrd(optional) that will boot on it. Or install
woody on modern machive, then try to boot old one. You may just use
base system install 90M or so, then this can be copied to old HDD +
/etc/fstab fixes + "root=/dev/hdxN" kernel option.
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