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Re: Problem...

From: "Christopher E. Brown" <>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 23:26:24 -0800 (AKDT)

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).
> 
> Can anyone offer any advice/help?

Read the LOWMEM install text, it explains installs on 4M and lower
machines.
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