On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 10:04:12 EST Tim Sailer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm having to do a scratch install of debian 1.2 on 2 > Toshiba Tecra 500CDT notebooks, and I'm slowly losing my mind from > lack of sleep. It took an hour or so of fiddling to finally come up > with 'disable all cache' to get the machine to boot from the floppy. > Everything else went fairly normal, but a little slow. I copied the > pcmcia stuff via floppy, then configured the card, nice and smooth. > Now the fun started. From a local (on the ethernet) mirror, installing > the rest of the packages with dselect via nfs took 5 hours! This is > a p5-133 folks! Now, using loadlin to try to boot failed with > the normal error I've seen about not enough memory, so I installed > lilo, rebooted into DOS, enabled the cache, and rebooted... > and rebooted... and rebooted. It gets to Uncompressing Linux, > and reboots.
If it only comes to `uncompressing linux`, the kernel has not started yet, and you probably have some cache problems and/or timing problem. Try the more conservative settings and then raise them progressively. > OK.. I'm fairly intelligent (so I think). It must be > the kernel, with all the compiled in goodies. I disabled the > cache and rebooted, and am now recompiling the kernel.... I think it won't solve your problem. > still compiling after *7 hours*!!!!! And... it died with How much memory do hou have ? 7 hours seems quite long, even without cache... > unreferenced symbols at the vmlinux linking. Does anyone > have any ideas about speeding this up? Did you compile the kernel correctly ? 1) make config 2) make depend 3) make clean 4) make zImage Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]