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yawningdog
04-19-2003, 02:14 PM
I'm putting gentoo on an old laptop made by some company called indecon using 1.4 rc3. Its a p133 with 64 mb and about 1.3 gb to spare. The partition is empty, but might still have fat fs on it, I haven't checked. Problem is, it just freezes up. the last two lines displayed are as follows:
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide0 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
I've tried boot options noapc, noscsi, dopcmcia (there is a network card involved), acpi=on(the battery is questionable), all to no avail. Any Suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
dkeav
04-19-2003, 06:19 PM
umm heres one, dont go with gentoo, or if you do i would build the system on another machine and ghost it onto that one, trying to build that is gonna take forever you dont have the room or ponies to do it easily,
i would look at something like deb, deli, peanut, especially have a look at vector, all will save on space and wont require the space and power to build them ehh slackware too i guess
i wouldn't bother with gentoo on that box. i agree with the last poster.
put debian on it.
dkeav
04-19-2003, 06:48 PM
you know it wont be as slim as a custom built deb system or min install, but you might look into doing the knoppix harddrive install, depends on what your experience level with debian is and if your willing to install debian from scratch, but really its not as bad as everyone says, just read the manual or a walkthrough guide, the only problems i had was with driver issues but that was with a gf4, i dont think your gonna have that problem
either way, good luck, have fun, enjoy
yawningdog
04-20-2003, 06:34 AM
Oh, man. Where were you guys a month ago when I asked which distro was the best for this machine.?:confused:
Debian it is. Okay, I tried knoppix on this machine and got the same problem. Can we still deal with that?
dkeav
04-20-2003, 12:49 PM
sounds like your cdrom is the old type that wont read cd-r's, the laser or the weight problem i dont remember, use a boot floppy to boot instead of just the cd, double check that your bios is set to boot from cd or floppy set the order cd,floppy,hd
yawningdog
04-21-2003, 05:47 PM
Whoa, you're right dkeav. I can't believe I didn't think of that. Thanks.
dkeav
04-21-2003, 06:40 PM
which was it, incompatiable drive, or bios settings??
dkeav
04-21-2003, 06:41 PM
oh and dont feel bad, ive brain farted the bios settings thing so many times ive lost count, and ppl on here who claim they havnt are prolly fibbin ya too