From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Wed Aug 29 2001 - 10:00:05 CEST
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 06:24:46AM +0000, Adam Nash nicely wrote:
> Hi All,
> I'm trying to install mulinux on an old 486dx33 with 8Mb ram. The
> boot+root disk and the usr disk go on fine, but when I try to install
> the wks or X11 floppies, they get part way through then the floppy
> drive's light goes off and the system just stops.
> For example, the WKS disk goes like this:
>
> Loading WKS from /dev/fd0H1722 (offset 0k). Please, wait...
>
> Creating /dev/ram3 ramdisk ...
> mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> Completed 22%
>
> ...it clicks through "Completed 1%" up until 22% then just stops.
> Same thing happens with the X11 disk, but it gets to 47% before
> stopping
You simply have a RAM and CPU problem, I think. Try enabling swap, of first
clone in the HD. The addons are highly compressed.
Being on a directory mounted from an hard-disk, you can also try:
# cat /dev/fd0H1722 > wks
# cat wks | bzip2 -ds > wks.tar
# cat wks.tar | (cd / ; tar -xf-)
This is an attempt to break the process in more stages, but the real
problem is bzip2.
Michele
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