I had VectorLinux 4.3 installed.
I booted into PuppyLinux and tried to install to the hard drive. It said some weird thing about that it can't because PuppyLinux is detecting /dev/hda1/ or something. It said make the partition into something Puppy couldn't find. Ok, so I CFDISK and make it into some NetBSD partition in hopes that would allow me to install and reformat the partition in ext2/3...
Now it freaks out and says "out of memory" and won't boot into it. I think it's making a RAM disk instead of using the swap space. The PC has very little RAM so that's why I'm assuming it says out of memory. Fixable?
Thanks,
---GustyGuest
Unable to install to HD: "Out of memory"
Re: Won't finish boot : "Out of memory"
OK, from your description, it sounded like you were experiencing this on your attempts to install to the hard drive. I understand now.GustyGuest wrote:I had VectorLinux 4.3 installed.
I booted into PuppyLinux and tried to install to the hard drive. It said some weird thing about that it can't because PuppyLinux is detecting /dev/hda1/ or something. It said make the partition into something Puppy couldn't find. Ok, so I CFDISK and make it into some NetBSD partition in hopes that would allow me to install and reformat the partition in ext2/3...
Puppy likes ext2 partitions and i don't know if it sees NetBSD ones.
In terms of hda1, what filesystem is on hda1?
Perhaps you can post what the partition scheme is that you have.
I agree with Flash. You may want to try version 1.0.3, which is back to the 2.4 kernel series. As Flash stated, it does have an option not to write to the hard drive on boot. The Opera version should require less ram.
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