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Post by Paul Beaucham » Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:01:20



All--
I am trying to install RedHat 6.2 Linux on a 486.  I think I have
a couple of problems (with my install).

I begin by creating the boot floppy then booting.  If I have formatted
my hard drive I get into the install (it begins to ask me questions).
If the drive is not formatted, I get a stack dump and the install
terminates.  I would like to use the whole disk for Linux (no need for dual
boot).

If the install does begin to work, it cranks away for some time then
terminates abnormally with little or no diagnostic information.

This shouldn't be this hard.  In the end, I would like to have just the
command line Linux running -- no fancy stuff.

Any help is appreciated!!

 
 
 
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486 Install

Post by Eric » Thu, 21 Dec 2000 17:43:59



> All--
> I am trying to install RedHat 6.2 Linux on a 486.  I think I have
> a couple of problems (with my install).

> I begin by creating the boot floppy then booting.  If I have formatted
> my hard drive I get into the install (it begins to ask me questions).
> If the drive is not formatted, I get a stack dump and the install
> terminates.  I would like to use the whole disk for Linux (no need for dual
> boot).

> If the install does begin to work, it cranks away for some time then
> terminates abnormally with little or no diagnostic information.

> This shouldn't be this hard.  In the end, I would like to have just the
> command line Linux running -- no fancy stuff.

How much RAM do you have in this machine?
(Is it still good? run a memtest)
And the HDD? What size is it.

Eric

 
 
 
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486 Install

Post by Stanislaw Flatt » Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:07:19



> All--
> I am trying to install RedHat 6.2 Linux on a 486.  I think I have
> a couple of problems (with my install).

> I begin by creating the boot floppy then booting.  If I have formatted
> my hard drive I get into the install (it begins to ask me questions).
> If the drive is not formatted, I get a stack dump and the install
> terminates.  I would like to use the whole disk for Linux (no need for dual
> boot).

> If the install does begin to work, it cranks away for some time then
> terminates abnormally with little or no diagnostic information.

> This shouldn't be this hard.  In the end, I would like to have just the
> command line Linux running -- no fancy stuff.

> Any help is appreciated!!

Hi Paul!
You need help with RedHat? This wonder supposedly solves problems before
they exist.
OK, RedHat is not my strong point but I heard that they ship with
kernels compiled for pentium CPU's, this maybe why it cannot accept a
lowly 486.
I installed Slak 7.1 (my latest) on 486/40 with 8M RAM and 256M HD.
No hickups, the kernels are 386 ready, when you have time you recompile
for higher numbers.
Enjoy Linux.
--
Stanislaw
Linux counter No.162760
Slak user from Ulladulla.
 
 
 
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Post by mverwe.. » Fri, 22 Dec 2000 00:45:15


My 2 cents :

I once had problems even trying to boot from a linux floppy on a
working win95 system. It displayed about 2 screens of boot information
and ended in a kernel dump. Everything went fine after I disabled all
the BIOS caching settings. Maybe you could give that a try ?



Quote:> All--
> I am trying to install RedHat 6.2 Linux on a 486.  I think I have
> a couple of problems (with my install).

> I begin by creating the boot floppy then booting.  If I have formatted
> my hard drive I get into the install (it begins to ask me questions).
> If the drive is not formatted, I get a stack dump and the install
> terminates.  I would like to use the whole disk for Linux (no need
for dual
> boot).

> If the install does begin to work, it cranks away for some time then
> terminates abnormally with little or no diagnostic information.

> This shouldn't be this hard.  In the end, I would like to have just
the
> command line Linux running -- no fancy stuff.

> Any help is appreciated!!

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I'm trying to install slackware 7.1 on a 486 machine that's been
upgraded with an AMD 5x86 (133 MHz).  It has only 8 megs RAM (8 30-pin
SIMMs), and all its controllers (IDE, floppy, even serial and parallel
ports) are on expansion cards.  Every time I get to the point that I can
run 'fdisk /dev/hda', I type the command and hit enter.  nothing
happens.  I've left it sitting for as long as two hours before giving up
on it.  Should I take the IDE hard drive to another machine and
partition it with some wsap space so I can do 'swapon' or something?  Or
will that not do anything because of such low memory?  All I intend to
use the thing for is something I can use as a temporary backup device
and as a place I can put files I want to use in both linux and Windows.

Also, since the CD-ROM and hard drive are on the same IDE channel,
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reduce overhead?

Oh yeah, I've tried the lowmem.i bootdisk image on the slacware CD.  The
computer reports it as an invalid boot disk.  All I can successfully
boot is the bare.i bootdisk.  And trying to use the CDROM as root, which
the docs say can be done, returns an error that it can't find init and
says to use the 'init=' option at the lilo prompt.

Any suggestions, words of encouragement, etc., are appreciated.

John

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