On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:01:34 +0200 Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not enough memory? > As far as I remember you need at least 12M RAM.
You can put Debian in 4MB, but you have to work at it, and need another PC as your Development Box. The days of installing the major distributions directly onto a 4MB box are _long_ gone. There are others who have made low-RAM distributions, though. Two other things: 1. 80486sx. All kernels nowadays assume that the FPU is built in. Been that way for ~5 years now. 2. How big is your hard disk? Those same low-RAM distributions are also small-disk. > > Hi, > > > > I bought an old Compaq Prolinea Net1/25s to use as a cheap > > mailserver, and I'm having trouble at the very early debian install > > phase. I'm planning to install via floppy and then ftp. I boot with the > > rescue disk, with no obvious problem. At the "Insert root floppy" prompt, > > I put in the root floppy. Next I get > > > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > > _ > > > > At this point it stops. After a few seconds, the floppy drive stops > > reading. > > > > I know the rescue and root disks I have work, because they work on my > > laptop. I've also tried booting with the "root=/dev/fd0" option, with the > > same results. I know the hard drive, and the computer, in general, is > > alright, because it runs Windows 3.x and DOS with no problem. Any good > > ideas? > > > > I'm going to include all my system stats below. feel free to ignore them. > > > > -patrick > > > > > > (from a website) > > > > OVERVIEW > > CPU type/speed/cache/ROM level: 80486sx / 25 / 0 > > / 8/25/93 > > HARDWARE > > Total memory: 4 Mb > > Conventional: 640 Kb > > Reserved: 384 Kb > > Extended: 3072 Kb > > EMS memory board make/model: None > > EMS memory board IO address: None > > EMS memory board frame address: None > > Keyboard type/language: Native / US > > Video type: VGA > > Network card make/model: DEC EtherWORKS > > (LC, DE205) > > Network card IRQ: 5 > > Network card IO address: 300 > > Network card memory address: D000 > > Mouse make/model: Compaq / M-S28- > > 6MD > > Mouse port or COM port or IRQ: Mouse Port > > > > (from opening up the computer) > > > > the floppy drive is a Mitsubishi MF355F-498UC > > hard drive listed in boot info below > > > > (possibly relevant items from boot) > > > > hda: QUANTUM TRB420A, ATA DISK drive > > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14 > > hda: QUANTUM TRB420A, 402MB w/96kB Cache, CHS=1010/16/51 > > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M > > FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 > > md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 > > . > > . > > . > > Partition check: > > hda: hda1 hda3 > > -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | ! Great Inventors of our time: | ! Al Gore -> Internet | ! Sun Microsystems -> Clusters | +------------------------------------------------------------+
