On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Hartmut Schmude wrote: > Recently I tried to install DEBIAN 2.0 -kernel 2.0.34 - on an > old 386 machine with the following configuration: > > mainbord 386 with CT 82C206 / 301 / 302 Chipset > no copro > ISA bus only > 8 Meg memory > Adaptec 1542 C > 2 SCSI Disks with 240 M and 4.3 G > VGA Tseng ET4000 (generic) > multi IO for lp and serial > > During the installation procedure - mainly when dpkg starts its > work after having installed the base system - dpkg ends up > with segmentation faults and the system is only partial usable.
Hmmm. I've been able to successfully install Debian 2.0 on a 386 system with 6MB of RAM. (In fact, so far as I can tell it only sees 4.5MB of that 6MB.) Since it only has 2 40MB IDE drives, I can't fit a lot on it, but it did install. > I tried out a customized kernel built on an other machine > with only 386 support, copro emulation etc. with the same > results. I haven't yet been able to compile a kernel on another machine that will run on my 386. I haven't tried in a long time, but every time I do it fails badly. Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "...Windows - which is often referred to as 'the French labor union of software'..." - Dave Barry