From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GLIH6-0006QT-SC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:42:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k87BferA009329; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 11:41:40 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k87BYPs4020117 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 11:34:37 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA79E64A51 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 10:35:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 09466-03 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 10:35:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34EB964A41 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 10:35:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GLHDt-00070h-8w for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:35:05 +0200 Received: from www.buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:35:05 +0200 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:35:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: 2006.1 install on AMD k-6 ? Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 10:34:39 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20060906215532.7db4461d@mach.qrypto.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060806) Sender: news X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.566 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.033, BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Score: -2.566 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 933ad751-d4d2-48de-a7e2-476dfcd05ccc X-Archives-Hash: f6d1d44e68d689a6978169a97e537a44 Rumen Yotov 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list