Hello List, I have an Mitsubishi Amity CN notebook, Pentium 133MHz 48MB RAM (which is it's maximum capacity), with a 1.5GB hard drive with which I'd like to dual boot Win98 and Linux-Mandrake 8.2. I can connect to the Internet and LAN via a Netgear FA411 PCMCIA NIC under Win9x.
I have set aside 128MB for swap space and 550MB for / (I am not interested in trying to run X on this little thing). I'd like to do a network install. I can mount the CD in another box and make a network connection to it but I get an error message stating that 52MB RAM is needed. The drakx README might be saying I could use a "ramdisk" but I don't know what that is or how to set one up. I've included some of the README below. Maybe you can help me. Thanks, Jon **************************************************************************** **** * PCMCIA install *************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **** If the media you use to install is a pcmcia device, use the pcmcia boot disk. **************************************************************************** **** * Ramdisk or not *************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **** The DrakX install is much bigger than the newt one. So the ramdisk which was used is getting big, and costs a lot in memory (eg: the mdkinst_stage2 is 14MB - 23/09/99) (update! now size is 21MB - 24/01/01) | | newt | DrakX |-------+---------+--------------------------------------------------------- - | nfs | live | live | ftp | ramdisk | ramdisk | http | ramdisk | ramdisk | hd | ramdisk | live if Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/runinstall2 is a link, | | | ramdisk otherwise | cdrom | ramdisk | live if memory < 52MB, ramdisk otherwise Where ramdisk is needed, if detected memory is below the limit allowed for ramdisk (maintained in file gi/mdk-stage1/config-stage1.h; currently 52 Mb), a failure dialog will be printed explaining that there is not enough memory to perform the installation. When i say live, it means that the stage1 will *mount* the Mandrake/mdkinst and use it that way. The ramdisk is used in place of the live in some cases. This ramdisk is filled with mdkinst_stage2.gz For cdrom install, the ramdisk is used to speed up things (access time is quite high on cdrom drives) For pcmcia, it depends on the type of install. ***************************************************** Thanks, Jon --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.350 / Virus Database: 196 - Release Date: 4/17/2002
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