[ale] linux on a 486

[rob hoppe]

Wandered Inn wrote:

> "Michael H. Warfield" wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 09:21:07AM -0400, Wandered Inn wrote:
> > > Trey Darley wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Dude. He just got done saying he TRIED Slackware. Better grab that
> > > > second cup of coffee. ;-)
> >
> > > Yeah, true.  What I tried to do was to add enough swap to compensate for
> > > the lack of memory.  I'm going through the same process again, this time
> > > adding an even larger swap.  It appears that my last failure could have
> > > been attributed to problems with the network card though.  When I
> > > attempted to setup my nfs network connection, I received errors.  I shut
> > > the box down, tried to reseat the nic, rebooted and I'm cooking again.
> >
> >         OH!  $#@$#@$#@!!!
> >
> >         I totally forgot about that weird problem when I did a Slackware
> > install on those two laptops.
> >
> >         It was an NFS install, just like you're trying.  I found that if
> > I told the Slackware installer that it was NFS and specified the NFS
> > path, it got all sorts of errors.  Most often it got errors complaining
> > about mount timeouts and RPC timeouts.  Which was really weird because
> > my NFS server was working fine.  Finally, I used Alt-F? (3 I think) and
> > did a manual mount of the NFS mount point and that worked fine.  Then I
> > went back to the installer screen on F1 and told it to use a locally
> > mounted path and specified the path to the NFS directory I had manually
> > mounted.  That worked perfect!  I never DID get the Slackware installer
> > on either laptop (PCMCIA network card) to mount the NFS directory
> > successfully, but mounting it by hand manually and telling the installer
> > to use a local path, worked perfect, first time, both times.  This
> > was also Slackware 8.
>
> Okay, if my current attempt fails, I'll give that a shot, although it
> appears that the NFS mount is working, as I do get to the point where it
> starts installing the packages.  At this point, it's further than it has
> ever gotten.  Previously it always locked up at the 'devs' install.
>
> Crap, just received an error while installing elvis.tgz.  gzip error.
> Claims to find problems with the file, but I can untar it and all on the
> nfs server.  The nfs connectivity is still active as well.
>
> I upped the swap to 48 meg, which I expected to work...
>
> I wonder if the fact that this is an iso file that's mounted on the nfs
> server might be complicating issues??
>

http://www.toms.net/~toehser/rb/ has a linux on a floppy.  I loaded it to a floppy
and it works great for trouble shooting.  You may be able to load and run to
configure your box?

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