[plug] Linux halting at bootup

[Len Bird]

At a guess I would say you are stretching your luck with 16 Megs of memory. I dare
say it CAN be done, but just how is a different matter. ou will certainly need to
make you swap file as large as possible.

Regards,  Len Bird

Peter Wright wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 12:28:42PM +0800, Roob, Andrew wrote:
> > Gudday all
> >
> > I have long wanted to try my hand at Linux and have now finally got
> > around to setting up a box .. I have a P100 with 16Mg and a 1.6Mg HDD
>                                                               ^^^^^^^^^
> > (what can I say .. its all spare parts ;) ..
>
> Please tell me that's a typo and you meant to say 1.6 gig HDD :-/.
>
> > Thanks
> > Andrew
>
> Sorry I can't shed any real light on your problem though.... My first
> thought would be a f*cked up hard drive - can you install anything else on
> it and boot from it? Did you tell the linux installer to do a check on the
> disk when formatting it?
>
> Pete.
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