Re: noteboot install

1996-12-13 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Philippe Troin, you wrote: > If it only comes to `uncompressing linux`, the kernel has not started > yet, and you probably have some cache problems and/or timing problem. > Try the more conservative settings and then raise them progressively. Heh.. 'on' or 'off' not real

Re: noteboot install

1996-12-13 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Richard G. Roberto, you wrote: > > > Tim, > > I did an install on one of these for my boss and I did it using > 1.1 boot + root floppy + 1.1 base.tgz. I installed the 2.0.6 > kernel and pcmcia stuff from floppy with no problem. Then I did > an ftp install from dselect usi

Re: noteboot install

1996-12-13 Thread Gleb Arshinov
> "Philippe" == Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> still compiling after *7 hours*! And... it died with Philippe> How much memory do hou have ? 7 hours seems quite long, Philippe> even without cache... You'd be surprised what turning off cache can do to your compu

Re: noteboot install

1996-12-13 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 10:04:12 EST Tim Sailer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm having to do a scratch install of debian 1.2 on 2 > Toshiba Tecra 500CDT notebooks, and I'm slowly losing my mind from > lack of sleep. It took an hour or so of fiddling to finally come up > with 'disable all cache' to