From: Ben Wheare (maples@x-stream.co.uk)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2001 - 18:57:30 CET
Just out of interest,
If I did the UMSDOS thing on my Celeron 450, it doesnt overwrite anything
on my HDD or partition itself, does it?
BW
At 08:44 23/01/01 -0500, 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...
>
>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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