From wimalasi@usc.edu Wed Oct 6 05:44:33 1999 Return-Path: wimalasi@usc.edu Received: from hantana.pdn.ac.lk (hantana.pdn.ac.lk [192.248.40.1]) by zuse.cs.pdn.ac.lk (8.7.4/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA21252; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 05:44:12 +0600 Received: from usc.edu (root@usc.edu [128.125.253.136]) by hantana.pdn.ac.lk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA21863; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 05:48:11 +0600 Received: from scf-fs.usc.edu (root@scf-fs.usc.edu [128.125.19.183]) by usc.edu (8.9.3.1/8.9.3/usc) with ESMTP id QAA16213; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 16:44:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sakura (res-0978.usc.edu [128.125.245.58]) by scf-fs.usc.edu (8.9.3.1/8.9.3/usc) with ESMTP id QAA17991; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 16:44:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <00c501bf0f8b$7f33df80$3af57d80@usc.edu> Reply-To: "Prasad wimalasiri" From: "Prasad wimalasiri" To: "Sumedha Wijeratne" , References: Subject: Re: Installing Redhat 4.2 on a 386DX with 32MB Ram Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 16:43:58 -0700 Organization: USC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 147 debugging this problem might take some time, and it would be more convenient to re-instal rh, make sure you do a very minimal instalation first, then once you have an up and running system, just rpm install rest of packages required ( and remember this is an ancient 386 !). I have not heard much about someone running rh5.2 let me know about performance, what do you intend to use this machine for ? ----- Original Message ----- From: Sumedha Wijeratne To: Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 1:44 AM Subject: Installing Redhat 4.2 on a 386DX with 32MB Ram > While booting after installation, the System hangs-up saying > "Unable to open an initial console" after "VFS : Mounted root ...Read only" > There is another problem, It says "Ramdisk driver installed : 16 Ramdisks > of 4096k size" this not possible (32MB RAM). > How do you change the No. of Ramdisks ? > I plan to upgrade this just by installing the base system of RH5.2. Will > this solve the problem. > Thank you > Sumedha >