What are you trying to do? I loaded a very old version of slackware on to a 486 with only 4MB of ram to basically use as a dumb terminal about a year ago. There were special instructions on how to do a low memory install. If you are trying for this I'll see if I can find my notes on how I did it. Linda Hanigan On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, daniel wrote:
> i'm trying to install skipjack (or any release for that matter) onto an old > 486 that doesn't allow booting off the cd. so i made a linux startup disk > and it seems to work... but only for so long. after i get the start up > screen and the prompt: > > boot: > > and i hit <enter> it seems to go through the start up / install process and > then stops with the following messages: > > running /sbin/loader > install exited abnormally -- received signal 11 > sending termination signals...done > sending kill signals...done > disabling swap... > unmounting filesystems... > /proc done > /dev/pts done > you may safely rebot your system > > > what went wrong? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list