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- From: unixsys@ssg.com (Rick Emerson)
- Subject: Re: Installation Help..thanks all!
- Message-ID: <2HV0NB2w165w@ssg.com>
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:23:36 GMT
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- rkohlbus@dining.umd.edu (Robert Kohlbus) writes:
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- >
- > I would just like to thank all the people who send me mail in my
- > question about installing Linux. After much trouble, I found my error,
- > I have 6mb of memory and Linux doesn't like it. I went to my other machine,
- > same kind, except it has 4mb of memory, and Bingo..it worked.
- > My next question is why doesn't it like my 6mb? I have a true blue
- > IBM 386 machine with OS/2 as my OS, and would like to install Linux as my
- > other OS on duel boot. If anyone else has any ideas, please send them my
- > way. Thanks.
- >
-
- Hmmm... I'm running the mcc-interim/X11 package from sc.tamu.edu (Dave, give
- this thingie a name. Please! <g>) on a generic 386/40 with 8MB without a
- problem. Maybe there's a memory problem with your machine? Linux seems to
- be pretty adept at finding weak parts of machines.
-
- Rick
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