[plug] Woody install probs

[Adam Davin]

Good evening all,

I had a similar problem installing woody today (486dx266 was 8mb ram now
16).
I was installing using the floppy disks to start (as there is no boot from
cd option on the 486). I found that it would boot the rescue disk ok, then
when it asked for the root disk it would start loading and then just stop.

After several restart attempts I re-copied the root disk and away things
went, until I got caught with a woody3-pre cd and it errored on "error
downloading pppoeconf"... but thats another story (I gave up on the cd and
installed over the net)

I also found that I got a "Kernel panic out of ram and no processes that we
can kill system halted" booting with the stock 2.4 kernel of the rescue
disks, hence the machine now has 16mb (and seems to be running fine)

Hope this helps

Adam.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: I am the LinuxAlien [mailto:linuxalien at optusnet.com.au]
> Sent: Monday, 29 July 2002 5:31 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] Woody install probs
>
>
> When trying to install woody it keeps freezing when it gets to
> the RAMDISK
> check, just after the partion check.
> the message is
> RAMDISK: Compressed Image found at Block 0
> After this it freezes.
> It is a P166 with 8mb RAM.
> My Wishes for it is to either boot into a minimal system and telnet/ssh
> into my main box. Or to boot from network as another terminal.
> Tim
> p.s. I don't care if i can't have woody if i can make it a
> terminal for my
> current machine.
>
> LinuxAlien
> Riverton, Perth, WA
>
> Australian Linux Technical Conference, Perth 2003 http://linux.conf.au
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>