Wakepup2 questions
Posted: Sun 29 Nov 2009, 20:15
>>>>>> EDIT 12-9-09: had two problems here, but most important was RAM. Added 64M sodimm and now 2.14R (thanx, ttuuxxx!) and meanpup (2.12 Opera) boot just fine. According to the ram meter in meanpup, i was just a few MB shy of having enough. I have not tried 4.3.1 per advice below. all working except sound card and that is a matter of tweaking ALSA config, I hope. BTW, be sure to go into toshiba BIOS (ESC key) and change pcmcia to cardbus 16 bit to get pc cards working (Xircom CE 2 10Mb ethernet in my case) racepres gets much thanks for innumerable PMs over the past few weeks. <<<<<<<<
I am using wakepup2 0.3 to try to boot from CD on an old Toshiba Tecra 510CDT with 32M RAM and pentium processor. Wakepup finds the CD (spins it up) and trys to boot, but the boot craps out just after the "loading disk drivers" prompt with "can't find PUP-431.SFS" then quits to ramdisk console. Tried all the options. I assume there is a typo in the error message (-431 vs _431) as the same CD boots fine in a machine that *can* boot from CD.
I tried copying the files to root of CD drive and put the marker file there as well, but this fails with a "ldm_invalid partitionsomethingorother" error. The HD is fat16. FWIW, I tried to upgrade to win98 SE to convert to fat32 but this is not an option without a complete reinstall from FDISK; last choice at this point.
I was hoping to boot then run gparted to push win98 into a smaller partition and setup at least a swap space on the disk, then go from there.
So, can this be done without making a custom distro first? Or is there something more sinister going on with the failure to find the squeeze file on CD? I planned to make a this bare bones system per how-to posts I've read, of course.
Recap:
1) fat16 OK to mount HD with to start install?
2) smaller SFS needed before successful boot?
3) 32M RAM achievable (pain assumed)
thanks for help. this is great fun and practice.
I am using wakepup2 0.3 to try to boot from CD on an old Toshiba Tecra 510CDT with 32M RAM and pentium processor. Wakepup finds the CD (spins it up) and trys to boot, but the boot craps out just after the "loading disk drivers" prompt with "can't find PUP-431.SFS" then quits to ramdisk console. Tried all the options. I assume there is a typo in the error message (-431 vs _431) as the same CD boots fine in a machine that *can* boot from CD.
I tried copying the files to root of CD drive and put the marker file there as well, but this fails with a "ldm_invalid partitionsomethingorother" error. The HD is fat16. FWIW, I tried to upgrade to win98 SE to convert to fat32 but this is not an option without a complete reinstall from FDISK; last choice at this point.
I was hoping to boot then run gparted to push win98 into a smaller partition and setup at least a swap space on the disk, then go from there.
So, can this be done without making a custom distro first? Or is there something more sinister going on with the failure to find the squeeze file on CD? I planned to make a this bare bones system per how-to posts I've read, of course.
Recap:
1) fat16 OK to mount HD with to start install?
2) smaller SFS needed before successful boot?
3) 32M RAM achievable (pain assumed)
thanks for help. this is great fun and practice.