[plug] Woody install probs

[I am the LinuxAlien]

I have put in a 32mb chip from another computer but will remove after the 
install as its only for a remote login type thing.
At 23:21 29/07/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>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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