>>>[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 ite
ms
> on the system and then
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 ab
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 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 f
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
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