From: Brett Carroll (carrollb@wirefire.com)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2001 - 14:44:39 CET
As noted in another message:
>You will find 1100 suggested remedies on the list. My favorite is: install
>mu on your Pentium and clone to dos filesystem as umsdos. SET UP THE SWAP.
>Then (from dos or otherwise) copy the whole bleeding directory c:\linux to
>the small computer and boot mu from dos. Voil\'a.
I have setup a 386/SX 4meg system and ran into the same problems you are
talking about.
You don't have enough memory to install the add-on packages...
For a painless install you should:
Hook the drive up to a faster machine with more memory and download all the
necessary files and add-ons.
then do the install from there. If you put all the files and add-ons in the
same directory Mu will see all the add-ons and install them at once.
If you choose this method you don't need any floppy disks and it is much
faster...
-Brett
-----Original Message-----
From: gene [mailto:gene]On Behalf Of Gene Smith
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 12:11 AM
To: mulinux@sunsite.dk
Subject: 386sx 4mb
My target system is 386sx 4mb, 114meg hd, floppy drive, Quadtel
TACT83000 386sx BIOS v3.05.03
I used the lowmem (lm) model and created a ROOT+BOOT and USR floppy
using linux on another machine.
When I boot the ROOT+BOOT floppy on the 386sx, it gets to the
"Microsoft? is that ..." message, pauses a while then displays
/linuxrc: Cannot fork
Ram : bytes
Cpu : 386
At this point the boot process seems hung but I can scroll the console
up and down.
I also tried to build the ROOT floppy under DOS (actually NT) using
Method 3 and the the root file was too large when rawriten to a F1722
floppy. The file ROOT seemed to about 1,900,000 bytes! So I was unable
to create the floppys using this method. Are the dos and linux methods
supposed to produce similar floppies?
The ROOT+BOOT floppy I made on linux boots fine on my usual pentium
class linux computer.
Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong?
-Gene
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