Other Help Topics :: HOWTO HD install on a machine with only a floppy

OK I feal stupid but the floppy was not the boot disk (corrupt). So now i go to boot and it says it is out of memory and kernel panics. It only finds 9 megs of memory. is there a way to have it use a swap partition if i make one or am i Strait Outa Luck ;)

I am unsure, but I believe if you make a swap partition on the HDD you can, if it is modified, have it load into the Swap partition Just as it would to use a CD how it copies itself into the RAM it should be able to copy to a swap partition in a similar manner.

Just a guess.

Quote (clivesay @ June 11 2004,23:45)

Brian -

I can now say that I have DSL on this old laptop! Thank you. I would like to know how you got the resolution to work. I am just getting a screen with lines even after choosing 640x480. My laptop has 16mb like yours. Any help is appreciated. Thanks

Chris

Mine just worked...It came up and ran like a champ...unsure of why your screen resolution is hosed but with mine it worked fine....very slowly but worked fine

If you PM me I might be able to get you a copy of WIN95 on floppy as well...

Brian
AwPhuch

I have tried this procedure on a IBM Thinkpad 701C. Everything works GREAT until I am running the dsl-hdinstall script. It seems to FREEZE the PC when copying the files from the CDROM contents on /dev/hda1 to the partition on /dev/hda2. The last line I see is "Now the root filesystem is filler with data...". When I ctrl-C to exit the script and reboot the PC, I get "missing operating system".

TIA,
Lee

Quote (redsoxfan @ June 23 2004,12:43)

What are the system specs of your machine?

The filling the root files take a loooong time on older hardware, did you follow the directions exactly??

Brian
AwPhuch

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