OK, As a simple test, I took the current RESC1440.BIN from the hamm distribution, used RAWRITE2.EXE to copy it to a floppy, dusted off the old 386 and booted it.
It took about a minute and a half to get to the "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0" message (which is NOT an error), then about 15 seconds more before it continued (saying "VFS file system detected," or something to that effect). That machine has 12 meg (sorry I thought it was only 8), and is a 386SX running at 16mhz. I don't think the difference in memory size is causing extremely long delay in your case, because at that time there isn't anything else running. Have you tried recreating the floppy? Maybe you got a bad image. If that doesn't help, I'm afraid your problem is beyond my knowledge; but let us know what happens, hopefully someone here will have a good idea. David Coe wrote: > > Are you *sure* it's freezing and not just taking > a long time to decompress that compressed image? > > I intalled debian on a 386sx 16mhz (actually an > 8mhz running at 16 in "turbo" mode, if that > matters), with 8 meg RAM, and it was extremely > slow. It did work, though. > > Sorry, I don't use that machine any more (it > has become a doorstop), so I can't offer any > advice other than "be patient." > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I am trying to install debian from a 386SX 16mhz with 5 megs of ram from a > > floppy disk drive. It has a 106 meg hard drive. 15 megs of the hard drive > > are used as an MSDOS partition. The installation goes through detecting > > items > > on the system and then says the following and freezes: > > > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > > > > -- > David Coe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > R & D and Support +1-410-489-9521 > Overlord, Inc. http://www.overlord.com > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- David Coe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] R & D and Support +1-410-489-9521 Overlord, Inc. http://www.overlord.com
