Did you do anything special to have it ask you to format immediately?
I have to use the boot disk and then choose F1 and then expert or text. It
loads the kernel, finds the CDROM and then goes into "second stage install"
At that point it dies. Going to tty4 (I think) to see the install log shows
that it found 48 Meg (correct) and that it isn't enough for the ramdisk. It
then shuts down with nothing else I can do.
Thanks for your help...
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Digital Wokan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 10:14 PM
To: David Joham
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Installing Mandrake 8 on low memory machine
Interesting. I ran into the RAM problem only attempting to do an FTP
install. At work, I've set up a 32MB box to act as a newsletter
server. While it's running 7.2 now due to 8.0's lack of the Sympa
package (nobody say anything about the Contribs package, I already tried
that), I did install 8.0 on it originally from a CD-ROM without any
problems. The only thing it asked was that I let it format and begin
using the swap partition immediately instead of after the install was
done.
David Joham wrote:
>
> No, the FTP install didn't want to work either. I'm trying a standard
CDROM
> install
>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Digital Wokan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 9:49 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Installing Mandrake 8 on low memory machine
>
> Are you trying to do an FTP install?
>
> > David Joham wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone had any luck installing Mandrake 8 on a machine with
> > semi-low memory?
> >
> > I've got a Toshiba 435 CDS with 48M (the max) and Mandrake complains
> > that that is not enough to create its install ramdisk. That seems a
> > little odd to me since 48M for an install should be plenty. Also,
> > RedHat 7.1 installs fine on the same machine. Finally, I just
> > installed Mandrake 8 on another laptop with 48M and it worked fine.
> >
> > Is there any way to tell Mandrake in the install to simply go ahead
> > and let me take my chances? What would be different between the two
> > laptops with the same amount of memory?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > David
