Re: Install-Problems

From: Michele Andreoli (andreoli@pisoft.it)
Date: Wed Apr 21 1999 - 21:33:33 CEST


On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 02:57:44PM +0200, Jens Puruckherr wrote:
>
> The Ram in the PCMCIA is unreachable for Linux????
>

With Linux, maybe; but muLinux ( a miserable floppy ) don't support PCMCIA
card.

Thanks Jens for this report: very complete and useful.

> and I'm installing muLinux at this moment with a 16 MB
> swapfile(option2).
> Let's look what happens...unpacking /usr since 08:16.....08:21.....hmmm,
> happy swapping...08:32...we're waiting....09:11..."Wait,wait...
> :-)"...1hour,40min later...hey, it feels good at 10:38 clock.../usr is
> ok!!

Umoristic, but drammatic :)

>
> So...configure /tmp...of course...size hmm... It says 1024KB to me. Is
> it enough?
> I say 2048K...enter. Now mke2fs...blink,blink...seems ok...ports -
> no..no..nix..no....all no!

2Mb is OK. Remember: max 4600K for muLinux ramdisk.

> Hey, at 11:12 runlevel 5, welcome to muLinux...what a speed ;-)
> 12 minutes later....it blinks...is it still alive?...yes!!! 11:39
> login:...it'crazy
> blink,blink...ile rev.2.01...blink...and:Cannot fork Sh... promt:
> "eh?>"

eh??? You still use a very old release, maybe? This mongoloid prompt
was removed since 4* (?).

>
> So, lets have a look at the filesystem:
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 4837376 4636672 200704 40986 3555328 1096
> Swap: 16M 1036288 15,3M
>
> MemTotal: 4724 KB
> MemFree: 196 KB
> MemShared: 4 KB
> Buffers: 3472 KB
> Cached: 4 KB
> SwapTotal: 15966 KB
> SwapFree: 14984 KB
>

cat /proc/meminfo work well, without fork. Anycase, this result is very
OK. Swap is active.

Mmmm... this report is not for me, but for Linus Torvalds!
In my opinion, mulinux boot process succeded.

> 2. "mount" at 13:05...lets make tea...
>
> wow...at 13:10...(tea is'nt ready):
>
> /dev/ram0 on / ...
> /dev/ram1 on /usr...
> /dev/ram2 on /tmp...
> /dev/hda1 on /swap type umsdos (rw) (!!! swap seems ok)
> /proc....
> /dev/fd0....
>

Your PC is a PC embedded in a super-relativistic battle-ship?
The hardware clock seems slowed by a gamma factor :)))

> 3. "ps ax" ....Cannot fork!
>

Gulp!

> Why is the system sooo slow??

Mah! A statistical fluctuation? :)

>
> 4. "clone"
>
> Has anybody an idea?
> To be continiued :-(
>

You never installed other Linux kernel on this PC?

Michele

-- 
Mi sarebbe piaciuto concludere con un'affermazione positiva, ma
non me ne vengono in mente. Vanno bene due negative?
						-- Woody Allen


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