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On Wednesday 08 May 2002 16:39, Jan Henkins wrote: |
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> Hi there, |
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> Thanks for your page on alternative methods to install Gentoo. |
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> A niggly question: |
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> The machine I want to install Gentoo on is (don't laugh) a P133 with |
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> only 32Mb RAM. So far every time I boot via a GRUB disk using the kernel |
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> and initrd on the install CD (via TFTP from another Linux machine) I get |
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> kernel panics with the message that there is not enough RAM. OK, that |
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> would make sense, let's face it that this is as marginal as it gets. |
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> Unfortunately I'm stuck with the specs as it is, I cannot find other 72 |
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> pin SIMMs to replace what I have to up the memory a bit. |
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> The question is, do you have any tips regarding making things happen, |
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> like a smaller kernel (monolithic) or smaller ramdisk image that might |
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> work? I cannot boot from CD with this particular machine, that's why the |
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> GRUB trick looked like it could save me (still could, I suppose). The |
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> commandline I used with the GRUB bootdisk follows the instructions |
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> closely, but not even playing with the ramdisk_size parameter do I get |
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> joy. Any thoughts/tips/flames would be welcome. |
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In case you cannot boot at all, try some other boot disk (maybe from another |
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distro). Next, before you do anything else, set up a big swap space. Gentoo |
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does run on my 16mb machine too |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Junior Researcher |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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