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Topic: cant find ramdisk, installation problem on a 486 DX 2/66

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Micha

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Posted: Nov. 13 2006,21:07

Hi,

I am just trying to install DSL on an old 486 DX2/66 PC with 16 MB Ram and an 800 MB HDD

So far all attempts to install die at the moment, where the system tells:

can't find /ramdisk in /etc/fstab

afterwards the creation of /ramdisk/tmp fails and then everything goes wrong... the system leaves me alone at the command prompt.

Would anyone have a suggestion?

Kind regards

Michael

P.S. that 486 computer doesn't have a CDROM drive but some PCI slots, so I put a USB card inside...

the system got cracy with an USB 2.0 Stick inserted, with an USB 1.1 Stick it doesnt complain anymore but the problem above still remains.

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Posted: Nov. 13 2006,23:17

A memory problem.. try booting with "dsl lowram" first.

If there's still problems, you can try "dsl lowram mem=16M"

Do you have any shared memory devices?

If all fails, check the wiki page on cheatcodes for more info.

skaos

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Posted: Nov. 14 2006,11:25

You could also try "dsl 2" which boots you into command line and then do a hard disk install from there: http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....=16062;

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Posted: Nov. 14 2006,14:35

Heh, I guess I was assuming he was planning on using it as a livecd.

If you plan on just installing it first, you can boot with "dsl install"

Micha

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Posted: Nov. 15 2006,09:37

Yes,

i want to install DSL to harddisk indeed.
At first I didn't realize that this is not the primary purpose of DSL.
Still struggeling with DSL installation for my old 486DX2/66 + 16MB Ram computer.

Above suggestion (parameter "install") did not work.
The aproach to first partition and format the HD, then start into runlevel 2 and run dslinstall from command line worked up to the moment where the system tries to put files on the HD.

I would have two more questions:
1) In the DSL wiki I found the swap partition should be at least 128M.
In my previous attempts I was assuming swap size should roughly be double the size of physical mem. Does a 128M swap partition make sense with 16MB physical mem?

2) With that particular computer (the BIOS shows the year 1994 during startup, is there a likely limit to partition size?

Kind regards

Michael

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