On 2010-01-24 at 18:18:28 -0500, Brian Ryans wrote:
> I just do what several of my friends did to me when I first switched to
> Debian, and back to *nix, after having been assimilated for so long by
> the Borg: Just link to http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html.
> After a couple weeks, it
On 2010-01-24 at 15:08:57 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> I guess I'm just kinda down on Roman after he sent that Gmail invite to this
> list a while ago. And it seems that he's using debian-users as a personal
> tutor
> while building his system, asking here first thing every time he runs into a
>
Quoting Stan Hoeppner on 2010-01-24 14:08:57:
> And it seems that he's using debian-users as a personal tutor while
> building his system, asking here first thing every time he runs into a
> small gotcha, even the really simple stuff. Look at his posts, and the
> volume of such, for the past month.
Stan Hoeppner writes:
> Look at his posts, and the volume of such, for the past month.
Don't you have a killfile?
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Chris Bannister put forth on 1/24/2010 5:50 AM:
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:37:13PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> Roman Gelfand put forth on 1/23/2010 10:27 PM:
>>> What is the difference between them and why does debian distinguish the two?
>>
>> Debian-users isn't a personal tutor, is it? Many
Point well taken. My appologies.
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Chris Bannister
wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:37:13PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> Roman Gelfand put forth on 1/23/2010 10:27 PM:
>> > What is the difference between them and why does debian distinguish the
>> > two?
>>
>
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:37:13PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Roman Gelfand put forth on 1/23/2010 10:27 PM:
> > What is the difference between them and why does debian distinguish the two?
>
> Debian-users isn't a personal tutor, is it? Many/most of the questions you've
> been asking have ans
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:27:51PM -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote:
> What is the difference between them and why does debian distinguish the two?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
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Roman Gelfand put forth on 1/23/2010 10:27 PM:
> What is the difference between them and why does debian distinguish the two?
Debian-users isn't a personal tutor, is it? Many/most of the questions you've
been asking have answers easily obtained via simple Google searches or in
readily available b
What is the difference between them and why does debian distinguish the two?
Thanks in advance
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On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 08:11:12PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Now my next problem is getting the ppp software to recognize com 7 as
> a valid com port. Com 7 is 3E8 IRQ5.
Err, no that's COM3 in DOS nomenclature; the IRQ is irrelevant.
Edit /etc/rc.boot/0setserial to set the IRQs or s
Kudos to the developer who fixed lowmem.bin!!! Recall that it would not do
the required swap partition tricks. The new lowmem.bin dated Dec 98 and
carried in the slink directory worked like a charm. It had hamm installed in
about an hour smooth as silk. Quite a treat after three months of
pu
hamm (2.0) for
> three months and seem to have two problems; swap space and boot file rw
> permission.
There is a workaround for the lowmem swap space problem at
http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/
Luck,
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where can I go to ftp the new lowmem.bin that fixes the inability of lowmem.bin
go activate a swap partition. Debian web sight still carries
lowmwm.bin dated june 1998. I have been trying to install hamm (2.0) for
three months and seem to have two problems; swap space and boot file rw
permissio
On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 11:28:20PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Has anyone been able to install the lowmem version of debian
> linux on a 386 with 4meg ram?? If so, what procedure was used.
> Is there no hope of adding a swap partition after installation??
The workaround is
Two general areas of puzzlement related to lowmem debian installation:
After the keyboard config during the installation vi was called
to amend fstab to add /dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0 . All went well and
fstab looked properly modified but then I could not get out of vi and
back to
>
> I can't remember the exact order of what happens, but this is what I make
> of it: After you've gone through the special lowmem steps to prepare a
This was the hint I needed (having been fighting a lowmem install
myself)!
Here is a (relatively clean) workaround.
Do the low m
o lines on boot-up read:
>
> Bash: Fork: Cannot allocate memory
> # (at this point the HD sounds like its writing and no commands
>are accepted)
>
> I've tried installing it three times with the same result. I assume
> its a memory problem and I can't add mor
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:08:14AM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:01:14PM +0200, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote:
> > I've installed Debian 1.3.1r6 on a 386 with 3Megs, EGA display and two 160MB
> > ESDI HD with no difficulties. Just had to compile a kernel with make zImage
[sni
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 04:44:14PM -0800, Larry Fletcher wrote:
> On Oct 06 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I am trying to install Debian on my 386 w/ 4Megs of RAM and
[snip]
> I've been trying the same thing. So far I have been able to install
> Debian Hamm from 1.44 disks using the "Installi
On Oct 06 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am trying to install Debian on my 386 w/ 4Megs of RAM and
> hercules video. Using the lowmem.bin image, here is what
> happens...
I've been trying the same thing. So far I have been able to install
Debian Hamm from 1.44 disks using the "Installing D
I've had a similar hardware configuration running linux before, but
that was Slackware 3.0 (when *it* was considered NEW). I've not tried
Debian with only 4M of RAM (and hercules card), but I can tell you
that Debian 2.0 liked my 386 with 8M RAM.
The Debian installation process, however, does t
I am trying to install Debian on my 386 w/ 4Megs of RAM and hercules
video. Using the lowmem.bin image, here is what happens...
boot: [I hit Enter.]
Loading lowmemrd.bin ...
That's as far as she goes. It hangs there, all night. I have to hard
reboot. Using the resc1440.bin image I get...
S
Hi!
As far as I remember you have to do a
boot: lowmemboot root=/dev/hda3
> putting Bo on 486DX33, <4MB RAM (3968kB), 520MBHD
> I found lowmem.bin and resc1440.bin, made disks of them both.
> Made the swap, main and temporary root partition.
> Initialised swap, (I THINK I) copied the root filesys
... Initialization
of swap and temp_root is verified by messages)
Now I tried to install hamm 2.34-4 lowmem and ran into
problems. I cannot proceed beyond the partition program.
I do not get alt-f2 sh and a alt-f3 error virtuals ...
Initialization of swap is not verified. I can start
the dd to the temp_root but
Thanks bunches!
The system is up and running.
I think something to this end should be put in the installation guide, or one
of the
many faq. I had a little trouble using vi, but after an hour of trials, i
finally
convinces vi to display a "/". all went well, and now I am looking for the man
hrough the menu for each option.
I hope this information helps you, although it is not completely clear.
Good luck
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> Onderwerp:Error Initial
artion# Size Type
> -
> 1 16M Linux Swap
> 2 4MMinix/Old Linux
> 3 89M Linux Native
> 4 16M Caldera DR-DOS
> --
> The two lines below app
nux
3 89M Linux Native
4 16M Caldera DR-DOS
--
The two lines below appeared (along with many other things)
when I chose option #4 exit. (from the lowmem setup menu)
***
swapon failed
d
Dear Brave Debian Users:
With a lowmem installation [4 meg.s RAM], 2 MB temporary
partition [ Type 81], 16 MB Swap Partition [Type 82], and the rest of my
HD for Linux; I can't install.
After booting from lowmem.bin, partitioning my disk,
initializing swap, co
>
> Dear Brave Debian Users:
>
> With a lowmem installation [4 meg.s RAM], 2 MB temporary
> partition [ Type 81], 16 MB Swap Partition [Type 82], and the rest of my
> HD for Linux 2.x; I can't install.
>
> After booting from low
Dear Brave Debian Users:
With a lowmem installation [4 meg.s RAM], 2 MB temporary
partition [ Type 81], 16 MB Swap Partition [Type 82], and the rest of my
HD for Linux; I can't install.
After booting from lowmem.bin, partitioning my disk,
initializing swap, co
Following the successful installation of v2.0 on an 8MB desktop, I've
been attempting to do a low memory install on a 4MB IBM Ambra BAM2401
486sx sub-notebook (170MB HD). Despite playing with endless changes to
the BIOS and power management, I am unable to activate the swap
partition after initiali
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