Where to start...ok im trying to transition from Damn Small Linux to Puppy... but the transition has been...problematic. I have an ibm i1411 I believe it is , with 233mhz Intel cpu, 163456kb of good memory (i did check due to nature or problem) and 3 gig hd. DSL runs it fine from cd. Puppy on the other had doesnt. v1.0.1 gets to "Uncompressing Linux.. invalid compressed format (err=2) --System halted" on boot. Ive tried two cd's and the checksums mach. Chubby, v1.0.8, and grafpup1.0.2 all say "not enough memory to load specified kernel' on boot. I do have enough memory and win95 / Suse / Feather/ and DSL have all worked on this machine. I had also left the swap in place from the DSL hd install and went as far as making the first partition a swap as well. No dice.
I know this sounds like alot so hears what i want to accomplish: 00 is a necessity, I would like to have grafpup work but if not possible thats ok. But a hd install with 00 would be stellar. Thanks in advance. e.C.
Not enough memory for kernel....old ibm laptop
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Ive tried every boot option and i know the cds work since they boot on my fc4 box. The hd has no other OS on it and is partitioned in 4 parttions: hda1 bootable 500mbs hda2 swap 128 mbs hda3 storage hda4 storage. I just reformatted hda1 to dos and am going to try the puppy.zip on it until i get any other suggestions. Thanks e.C.
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elChupey:
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http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=8118
rarsa and I (chiefly rarsa) just got done getting Delphi123's Puppy going; if you go to the third page and try my "provisional simplified instructions," except substituting hda1 (your active Linux partition) for hdb2 (his active Linux partition) and hda2 (your Linux swap partition) for hdb1 (his Linux swap partition), and keep hda1 as primary not extended, and for Install grub:
grub
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
and with just the lines
default=0
timeout=5
title Puppy Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 PSLEEP=999 PFILE=pup001-none-262144 PHOME=hda1
initrd /boot/image.gz
boot
in menu.lst,
then it should work for you...I think...if not, post your menu.lst from grub and let's take it from there. Be advised that if you do a search on "NeoMagic" you'll see that early Puppy versions had problems with that video chipset, so you might have to update to Puppy 1.0.6 or 1.0.8 or 1.0.9 or 2-alpha-7 in order to succeed.
over in
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=8118
rarsa and I (chiefly rarsa) just got done getting Delphi123's Puppy going; if you go to the third page and try my "provisional simplified instructions," except substituting hda1 (your active Linux partition) for hdb2 (his active Linux partition) and hda2 (your Linux swap partition) for hdb1 (his Linux swap partition), and keep hda1 as primary not extended, and for Install grub:
grub
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
and with just the lines
default=0
timeout=5
title Puppy Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 PSLEEP=999 PFILE=pup001-none-262144 PHOME=hda1
initrd /boot/image.gz
boot
in menu.lst,
then it should work for you...I think...if not, post your menu.lst from grub and let's take it from there. Be advised that if you do a search on "NeoMagic" you'll see that early Puppy versions had problems with that video chipset, so you might have to update to Puppy 1.0.6 or 1.0.8 or 1.0.9 or 2-alpha-7 in order to succeed.