Hi all ! >On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 12:18:25PM +1100, Corbishley Family wrote: >> [Debian via] floppy to an old 386 with 4MB ram and 120MB hard disk. >> ... partitioned hard disk into Linux, Linux swap, Minux/Linux). >> ... "Initialize and Activate a Swap Partition"... > > ... a bug in the low memory installation. A workaround is described >at ... http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/lowmem.html
Laptop Austin, 386SXL-25, Phenix 1.05 Bios, 640k+3Mb RAM, 540Mb WD The lowmem special menue (1.partition,2.init.swap,3.init root,4.reboot) A) 3. does NOT copy the root partition to /dev/hda5 (minix) "it hangs" B) I am not shure wether 2. initializes the swap on /dev/hda3 because I don't get a message about what was done when initialization finishes. C) I don't get an alt-f2-console at this point. (B+C as it was usual in bo lowmem) I can do a floppy boot via the rescue-disk (boot: rescue root=/dev/fd0) but I end up with "Unable to open an initial console" Any Ideas? Greetings Anton -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= .". + : Anton J. Gamel : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> V : : an Apollo & a VAX for a Vet : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (,,) : +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=---""--+
