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Posted: July 20 2004,12:30 QUOTE

Hello guys

I'm having a lot of trouble installing either the 7.1 or the 7.2 version to a very old box.

It boots from the CD,  decompresses the kernel, then tells me that me that I didn't choose a correct mode (I then take the 80x25 option). Then, the screen just gets black and the prompt starts to dance. I wait about five minutes and the prompt doesn't move anymore. Then, press a couple of times the enter key and it gives me the boot lines (stored, I thing, in the ring buffer).
These lines end with the

-- PCI: probing PCI hardware (00) -- log

The PC is very old
Pentium I 100Mhz with 16M Ram and 1Go HD

Does anybody know a workaround?
Or did anybody install a small linux version on such a system?
Thanks in advance...

LoPo
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Posted: July 20 2004,16:37 QUOTE

Try some of the suggested boot parameters here:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....agger01

Hope this helps.
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Posted: July 20 2004,18:04 QUOTE

16M ram is cutting it close without a swap partition or file..
More ram would be very helpful....

73
ke4nt
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Posted: July 20 2004,18:39 QUOTE

Hi,

Add a swap partition with cfdisk, at least of 64 MB.

This was helpful for me.

I have pentium 100 Mz, 32 RAM, 500 MB HD.
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