Re: noteboot install

1996-12-13 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 10:04:12 EST Tim Sailer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm having to do a scratch install of debian 1.2 on 2 Toshiba Tecra 500CDT notebooks, and I'm slowly losing my mind from lack of sleep. It took an hour or so of fiddling to finally come up with 'disable all cache' to get

Re: noteboot install

1996-12-13 Thread Gleb Arshinov
Philippe == Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: still compiling after *7 hours*! And... it died with Philippe How much memory do hou have ? 7 hours seems quite long, Philippe even without cache... You'd be surprised what turning off cache can do to your computer. For

Re: noteboot install

1996-12-13 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Richard G. Roberto, you wrote: Tim, I did an install on one of these for my boss and I did it using 1.1 boot + root floppy + 1.1 base.tgz. I installed the 2.0.6 kernel and pcmcia stuff from floppy with no problem. Then I did an ftp install from dselect using

Re: noteboot install

1996-12-13 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Philippe Troin, you wrote: If it only comes to `uncompressing linux`, the kernel has not started yet, and you probably have some cache problems and/or timing problem. Try the more conservative settings and then raise them progressively. Heh.. 'on' or 'off' not real