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[Ondra Tomecka <otom7630 AT lucy.troja.mff.cuni.cz>]

For some reason I cannot boot from the SMGL CD at all, I don't even get to 
the initial screen. The problem is most probably not in CD drive as I can 
boot other distributions, and the CD itself is bootable because I can boot 
it on another machine. So I'm going to install RH5.1, upgrade kernel, and 
install sourcemage in chroot. And we'll see what happens :)

Andy

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Eric Sandall wrote:

> Quoting Ondra Tomecka <otom7630 AT lucy.troja.mff.cuni.cz>:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Have anyone ever tried to install SMGL on something like P75, 4M RAM, 640M
> > HDD? My mom got such computer and wants me to create web browser and mp3
> > player from it ;-)
> >
> > I managed to install RH5.1 on it, but it doesn't boot from RH6.x or higher
> > CD, as well as it doesn't boot from SMGL ISO from 20040414. Most probably
> > because all those newer ISOs try to create a ramdisk too big to fit in
> > memory :( I'm going to try to install SMGL over that RH5.1 when I get home
> > from work, but I'm not sure I understood instructions for chroot
> > installation correctly. I'll see in the evening.
> >
> > In the meantime I would appreciate any tips for such low-memory 
> > configuration
> > ;-)
> >
> > And before anyone suggests that installation wouldn't be possible with
> > such small disk, I'm going to use samba share for that ;-)
> 
> I've successfully put SMGL on a P133, 64Mb, but with a 2Gb HDD and /home and
> /var/spool/sorcery mounted via NFS (I also turned off ARCHIVE, CCACHE, and
> GATHER_DOCS and enabled strip and tiny compilation options).
> 
> Did you try passing the "lowres" (IIRC) option to the ISO boot so that it
> doesn't use the framebuffer?
> 
> -sandalle
> 
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