Re: HELP!!! Can't seem to get RH4.2 installed!!

[*snicker* <menion mindless com>]

How much ram do you have?  What sort of BIOS settings are enabled?  Is
all your ram good?  do you have a way to test your RAM to see?  Does
Linux see the total amount of RAM that you have?  Is there any unusual
hardware in your machine?  Do you have a sound card?  CD-Rom?  IDE or
SCSI? On my friends 486 DX4/100 I never did get it working.  The DX4 gen
of proc's have terrible times working properly.  I don't know if it is
cheap motherboards or what, but in general it is tough.  Anyway, on his
computer, I could get throught the install just fine.... but when it
only had 8 megs of ram it took 21 hours.  Yeah.. Suck.  Anyway... Some
more detail would be great.

js

Mark Semans wrote:
> 
> I have tried varies combinations to get RH4.2 installed on my machine.
> I keep getting Can't get free pages errors.
> Even when I try to install on *just* the 520M IDE drive.
> The virtual console tells me I have MemTotal is 6644KB avail.
> 
> It doesn't seem to matter if I FTP to load or install from a the local
> hard disk.  The floppy does always seem to run....
> 
> Also, the install takes FOREVER!  I really mean hours and hours...
> 
> I'm out of ideas.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Mark Semans
> 
> Mark Semans wrote:
> >
> > Some additional info.....
> >
> > Finially got thru the packge installs...like overnight...
> > I was at the mouseconfig....answered the questions and now it's looking
> > for metrox...
> >
> > Something is not right..and I have like no idea...
> >
> > Thanks for any help...
> >
> > Mark Semans wrote:
> > >
> > > After I sent the message, I tried just installing on the IDE drive.
> > > Also had a Couldn't get free page error...
> > >
> > > I did download the img you suggested.
> > >
> > > It still gave me 4 page errors, but it recovered and finished the
> > > filesystem make..
> > >
> > > Thanks