From: Gene Smith (gds@chartertn.net)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2001 - 06:05:51 CET
Brett Carroll wrote:
>
> 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...
I didn't select any add-on packages and still ran out of memory!
>
> 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.
I opened up the 386sx box and the disk drive has a ide ribbon cable
going to it but it is much more dense than standard ide cables used in
my pentium machine. The drive is a seagate st9144a which must be a
design for laptops I would guess. The comupter is a Texas Instruments
386ATM which acts as a coprocessor to a TI555 plc (programmable logic
controller) both of which are now made by Siemens. So I would need to
find some way to adapt the fine pitched ide ribbon to standard ide to
install the seagate drive in my desktop pc.
> 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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