Re: Woody on 486 problem



Mirko Scurk wrote:
Hi!

I'm trying to install woody on Digital Venturis 466 486DX66, 540MB HDD,
20MB RAM, CD-ROM, S3 Turbo VGA 1MB and EtherWorks III ISA network adapter.

The first stage of install went fine but after installing lilo and
rebooting I never got prompt. There are many errors:

Read-only file system
nothing in /proc - not mounted?
lot of
/lb/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4 ...... cannot create .... Read-only file system
/lb/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4 ...... init_module: No such device

This looks like you have insufficient RAM for init to complete.
It's dieing in the middle, and restarting. Of course, it can't
complete again, so there you go.

and finally

INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

When I log to second virtual terminal I get message:
mesg: /dev/tty2: Read-only file system

Any sugestions, please?

Add some RAM, getting at least 32MB and preferable 64MB.
I have successfully run Knoppix (Debian based) on a
machine with 32MB, but it isn't nice.

Even better, perhaps, would be DSL, which I have run on a
486 class machine with only 16MB of RAM.

NB: Text only mode, no GUI.

Mike
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