I have been trying to install 1.2 on a Thinkpad 500 with 4 meg of memory without success. The machine had Slackware working on it, but the rescue disk fails on boot. It last message is:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 And then hangs. I suspect the problem is a lack of memory. The rescue disk reports memory as: Memory: 1604k/4288k available (1044k kernel, 384k reserved, 672k data) By comparison, the slackware bare.i boot disk reports: Memory: 2828k/4288k available (688k kernel, 384k reserved, 388k data) and the previous custom kernel was similarly small. I tried the new.resq1440.bin with similar results. floppy=thinkpad, and mem=xxx, and other attempts at boot parameters make no difference, other than to elicit a slight variation of: Couldn't get a free page . . . out of Memory ---- My guess is that the rescue disk kernel is just too large for a machine with so little memory. My expectation is to get the system going from floppy, and then add parts with either SLIP, PLIP, or PCMCIA ethernet - depending on how well things work. If the above interpretation is correct, is there any chance we could have a low memory version of the rescue disk for similar machines. I would put the disk together myself, except that I need a working debian system to install the package on to make a new disk. George -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
