On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Lee Adamson wrote: > Well, I've been trying to install RedHat 4.2 on this 486 laptop, via FTP > over a null-serial cable... > > The kernel boots, giving a message that 1.2 megs of RAM (out of 4) are > free. All of the rest of the boot stuff scrolls by, and finally it comes > up with 'RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0', and sits there... > > All I can figure is that there isn't enough free RAM to load the disk > image. I've got an old Slackware distribution that I've sucessfully > installed on a 386 with 4Mb of RAM, but it requires a CDROM (won't install > via ftp). I'm not convinced it's the RAM- I've successfully installed RedHat 4.1 on a 4MB machine before, in fact I think 4MB is the official minimum for an intel box. Try looking at the boot messages on the other four virtual terminals to see if they give any clue... --------------- Linux- the choice of a GNU generation. -------------- : Alex Holden (M1CJD)- Caver, Programmer, Land Rover nut, Radio Ham : -------------------- http://www.linuxhacker.org/ -------------------- -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org
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