Re: Debian on 386SX/3MB

2001-04-28 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:57:45PM -0500, Indraneel Majumdar wrote: Hello, Can anyone please tell me whether it is possible to install Debian on a 386SX with 3MB RAM. I tried to install using the potato floppies but it starts to load the compressed ramdisk from the root floppy and then

Re: Debian on 386SX/3MB

2001-04-28 Thread Brandon High
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:57:45PM -0500, Indraneel Majumdar wrote: Can anyone please tell me whether it is possible to install Debian on a 386SX with 3MB RAM. I tried to install using the potato floppies but it starts to load the compressed ramdisk from the root floppy and then simply

Re: Debian on 386SX/3MB

2001-04-28 Thread John Galt
The short answer is no. The long answer is I got a 386DX with similar specs up under bo. Look on http://archive.debian.org and expect some SERIOUS pain. ISTR that you had to do some specialized things: I think there was a README on lowmem, but I may be confusing things here--my 386's MFM disk

Debian on 386SX/3MB

2001-04-27 Thread Indraneel Majumdar
Hello, Can anyone please tell me whether it is possible to install Debian on a 386SX with 3MB RAM. I tried to install using the potato floppies but it starts to load the compressed ramdisk from the root floppy and then simply hangs. No furthur output. The floppies are OK and work fine on other

Re: Debian on 386SX/3MB

2001-04-27 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Indraneel Majumdar wrote: Hello, Can anyone please tell me whether it is possible to install Debian on a 386SX with 3MB RAM. I tried to install using the potato floppies but it starts to load the compressed ramdisk from the root floppy and then simply hangs. No furthur

Re: Debian on 386SX/3MB

2001-04-27 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Indraneel Majumdar wrote: Hello, Can anyone please tell me whether it is possible to install Debian on a 386SX with 3MB RAM. I tried to install using the potato floppies but it starts to load the compressed