Other Help Topics :: Booting problems

Heh.... I would be honored to get there.. But there are people before me in the line (hats, juanito...)

All those problems come from low ram, I'm sure about that. Try booting with this line:
"debug 1 nopcmcia nousb nofirewire idecd vga=normal mem=16M nosound nomce noscsi noapm noagp noacpi"

It drops you to stage 1 limited shell, just press enter. In stage 2 shell

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mkdir -p /mnt/hda1
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 -t vfat
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/hda1/thisisnotswap bs=1M count=64
mkswap /mnt/hda1/thisisnotswap
swapon /mnt/hda1/thisisnotswap

Jay! You've now created a swap file without repartitioning. Just press enter a few times until you get to root console. If you type "free" you see you now got 16m of ram, and 64m of swap! Feel free to install frugal (or wipe 98 and do a hd-install) now....

Hope this helps

whoa... that looks like it just might work
if this works I think I'm going to be very happy...
I'm so sick of Windows on all my machines

I'll give it a try

original here.