HD Install :: cant find ramdisk
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.
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.
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;
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"
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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