[plug] Woody install probs

[Harry McNally]

Adam and Mr Alien,

I thought the minimum was 12MB (?) of RAM and that some of the distros (even
debian?) gave a warning and stopped if the RAM was smaller. So I can understand
it collapsing with 8MB and going ok with 16MB.

cu
Harry 


On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 22:43:50 +0800 "Adam Davin" <bladebadger at westnet.com.au>
wrote:

> 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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