From: Giuseppe Bellini (giupy@tin.it)
Date: Thu Sep 20 2001 - 09:00:17 CEST
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 10:47:01AM +0700, Andrew Criswell wrote:
THIS IS MY FIRST HELP,I'M NOT SURE HELP YOU BUT HAVE TREIED :)
> Hello All:
>
> I have a DEC 486SX with 8MB ram and 40 MB hard drive. Mulinux seems to be the obvious solution.
>
> My computer is now formatted as EXT2 with linux swap drive.
why is just formatted?have you used another distro?remember that mulinux
need its lilo so do lilo -U or fdisk /MBR than reinstall mulinux on hd.
>
> I can successfully load the BOOT+USR flopy disk. But when I proceed to the next disk, loading stops around 22%. How come? Run out of memory, I suspect.
>
you need some ram i think
> Ultimately, I would like to "clone" the floppies onto my hard drive. I have tried to do so with only BOOT+USR but the installation aborts because it cannot find LILO. Of course, LILO is on the WKS floppy which cannnot be loaded because of the 22% constraint.
why is just formatted?have you used another distro?remember that mulinux
need its lilo so do lilo -U or fdisk /MBR than reinstall mulinux on hd.
> Why 22? Perhaps it suggest a "Catch 22".
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> ANDREW
>
> Andrew Criswell
> Professor
> Graduate School, Bangkok University
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