1.2 installation cache problem
I recently installed version 1.1 (successfully) and while going back to re-install for a new ethernet card, I trashed my installation boot disk. Since I could not find a replacement for 1.1 on the Debian ftp site, I decided it was a good time to install 1.2 so I downloaded all the files for 1.44 floppies onto my wintel machine. Now, when I begin the install, after the 'boot:' prompt, and after a number of hardware items are probed-for, I get the following error and it won't go away. I've tried four different floppies and even re-downloaded the resq1440.bin file and it still happens like below. My machine is a 386 with 4mb of ram and a 120mb hd. Help? Partition check: hda: hda1 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Couldn't get a free page.. out of memoryVFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem) init: cache '/etc/ld.so.cache' is corrupt Fred Sammet MultiCorp, Inc. Ph: (800) 888-5121 Fax: (972) 424-0562 Web: http://www.multicorp.com E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1.2 installation cache problem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fred Sammet) Partition check: hda: hda1 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Couldn't get a free page.. out of memoryVFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem) init: cache '/etc/ld.so.cache' is corrupt Once you get the Couldn't get a free page... you're sunk. The rest is just a symptom of that. This is probably more like a 3MB system than a 4MB one - some motherboards allocate 640K to low RAM, and then waste 384K. See if you can tweak your BIOS settings to fix this. The quickest fix would be to plug in more RAM. Otherwise, you'll have to copy root.bin to a floppy and boot with linux root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=0, inserting the root floppy when prompted. This will leave the root floppy locked in floppy drive 0, so you'll need a second floppy drive for everything else. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
