I'm not sure what kind of memory it uses, it is a very old machine. I checked prices on the internet and you can get 128MB of PC100 SDRAM DIMM for about the price of a 4MB 30 pin SIMM (which is probably what it needs). It just doesn't make sense to pay good money to upgrade a 10 year old machine. Besides WALMART is supposedly coming out with a $199 computer running Lindows in the near future. -----Original Message----- From: Donald R. Spoon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 4:31 PM To: Debian Users Subject: Re: Woody on a 486/50
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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.sandersweb.net > > The ramdisk needs a default value of a little over 4 Megs of "free" memory to setup. Since your computer is locking up at this point, you may be having a memory-shortage problem. It should work, but I can't say for sure since, it has been a long time since I installed Debian with anything less than 64 Megs of RAM. You might have a defective memory stick in there...dunno. Anyway, if possible, try sticking in some more memory if you can. You won't regret it.... Cheers, -Don Spoon- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
