[gentoo-user] Re: 2006.1 install on AMD k-6 ?

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Rumen Yotov <rumen <at> qrypto.org> writes:


> > I have an old AMD-K6 200MHz system with 196 M of ram that I'd like
> > to make it into a DNS primary server. I've tried the x86 livedCD
> > 2006.1 to install, but after trying to load the image, it just
> > reboots. I ran memtests for a very long period of time and the ram
> > looks fine. Indeed Knoppix 5.0 boots very slowly, but just fine and
> > runs a full gnome interface, slowly but correctly, so I know the
> > Ram/cpu is fine.


> There are only two classical install media CDs - livecd-i686-2006.1
> IIRC and minimal-x86-2006.1.
> The livecd is only for arch >= i686 (AMD-K6 isn't fully i686) so,
> minimal-x86 + stage3-x86 is the way to go here.

Hello Rumen,

Well, I used 'install-x86-minimal-2006.1.iso' and it ran for a while
before hanging. Here are the last few steps after the keymap was
selected by default:
Mounting squashfs filesystem
Copying read-write image contents to tmpfs
No cdupdate.sh script found, skipping...
Booting (initramfs)...

<< hung >>

either the arch is incompatible or it does not like the ram (192 MB)...?


thoughts and ideas?

James



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