I just looked at the install manual for Potato, it requires 12MB of memory. However, slink only demands 4MB.
-----Original Message----- From: David Sanders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 9:08 PM To: Debian Users Subject: RE: Woody on a 486/50 I've just tried booting with the debian floppies with the same result. I guess I'll try potato. -----Original Message----- From: W.D.McKinney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 4:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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 ? -- W.D.McKinney (Dee) http://3519098920 -- 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] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
