Hello, I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT with 16M ram, P1, 1.2G. During install from boot floppy it works up until "creating directories and symlinks on ramdisk" at which point it flashes a message like "unable to handle kernel ... request..virtual..." and scrolls off the top of the screen. the bottom of the displayed info is off the bottom of the screen. Do I not have enough RAM? I'm many hours into what will hopefully end up being a positive first linux experience, please help. Thanks.do you have a swap partition on your system...
With only 16meg ram its going to be very very slow going...and without enuff elbow room linux will grind to a halt...well maybe not a halt but it will be unGodly slow...
Try running win98 on 16meg of ram and no swappage!!
Brian AwPhuchI did make a linux and a linux swap partition, I am trying to wean myself off MS products entirely, Is there a better distro for my experimental computer?Is your swap partition active?
type:
free
inside an Xterminal and see if the total memory listed includes
RAM size + swap size
If not, your swap partition needs to be activated.
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I did make a linux and a linux swap partition, I am trying to wean myself off MS products entirely, Is there a better distro for my experimental computer?
I would stick with DSL on that particular laptop
Disable all unused ports in the bios...play with the bios settings until it will accept the kernel...
Also if you are using a boot floppy make sure its a good floppy...sometimes bad floppys will still burn the image but will crap out when it reads it