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

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skaos

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Posted: Nov. 15 2006,10:58

32-48 MB swap should be more than enough.

Partition size: yes and no - dos/win9x (I think) uses the bios to access the disk and some (most?) bioses of that time had a 0.5 or 2 GB disk size limit. Linux doesn't have this limitation as it accesses the hardware directly - the only problem may be with the boot loader (lilo/grub). Then again, I'm no expert ...

fabius79

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Posted: Nov. 25 2006,11:54

Quote (Micha @ Nov. 13 2006,16:07)

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

Hi everyone,
all I did was to create the dir /ramdisk/tmp by hand

from command line
#sudo -s
#mkdir /ramdisk/tmp
#dsl-hdinstall

everything went right!!
now I've a fully functional hd installation on my
pentiumI 150MHz, 16MB ram, hd 512MB

works great!
bye

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