by Hello everyone,
Recently, I bought the Fall 1995 edition of Plug and Play Linux here in
the Netherlands, Europe. Today, I
managed to get a hold of 2 more MB's of memory for my good old 386SX PC,
that I'm planning to use as a
TCPIP gateway. But Linux won't install, it complains about a lack of
memory.
Situation:
Brand X 386SX 16Mhz
4 MB memory
105 MB Seagate HDD
3,5 FDD
2 * 3c509 3COM network card
nothing special.
I connected my 5speed ATAPI CDROM as a slave drive to the HDD, just for
installing Linux. Things work
OK under DOS, including the CDROM.
When installing, I get the message "SH is out of virtual memory" (after
a lot of waiting as expected) and nothing
more... Darn. I know it's about the smallest machine you can get to run
Linux, but it's the only one I have
left. Is there some simple trick to get the installation working?
I have tried quite some things already; even to the extend of building a
minimal Linux 2.0 kernel on another
machine to save some memory, but that one can't find the root device (?)
during bootup.
I'm really out of options now, I can't get more memory in the machine,
the motherboard won't allow it....
Please help me!
Harry Westerman