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

["Scott W. Petersen" <scooter wwa com>]

This happened to a friend of mine who had only 4 megs of memory.  Linux
likes to have just over 4 megs for the install.

Scott


At 08:33 PM 11/4/97 -0600, you 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
>> >
>> > Mark Semans
>> >
>> > Stephen Smoogen wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Could you try using the following boot image and let us (the list)
know if
>> > > it fixes the problem:
>> > >
>> > > ftp.redhat.com/pub/spt/smooge/4.2-152x/boot.img
>> > >
>> > > I am thinking that you are running out of memory for some reason on the
>> > > install, and it may be due to the fact that the 1520 is a module
(this is
>> > > a guess).
>> > >
>> > > On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Mark Semans wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > I've been trying to install on my:
>> > > >       486/100 w/8MB
>> > > >       2 drives 540MB IDE, 630MB SCSI w/aha152x
>> > > >
>> > > > I have the SCSI drive partioned as 20M /tmp and balance as /home
>> > > >
>> > > > The install program mke2fs mke2fs /tmp/hda2 which works fine
>> > > > BUT when it does /tmp/sda2 partion I get the following error on the
>> > > > virtual console:
>> > > >
>> > > > <4>Couldn't get a free page....
>> > > >
>> > > > and the system hangs.  This drive worked fine on Win95.
>> > > > I have 25164k of swap defined and added
>> > > >
>> > > > Help!  Been struggling for awhile..
>> > > >
>> > > > Mark Semans
>> > > >
>> > > >
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