difficulty installing 5.3-R i386

Wed Apr 6 04:34:04 PDT 2005

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 09:29:02PM +1000, Gabrielle Harrison & Paul van den Bergen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have an old old pentium, scsi HDD + floppy + CDROM, 16 MB of somewhat  
> dubious ram...

I don't think 16MB RAM is enough to install 5.x
You probably need to increase the RAM.

> 
> I have 5.3R CDs 1 and 2
> 
> I have 3 seemingly working floppies (after writing to 6 disks... ofcourse!)
> 
> boot goes like this...
> 
> boot disk.
> kern1
> kern2
> boot
> boot screen with about 8 options, none of which seem to be the  
> installation option... then reboots back to floppy...
> 
> 
> I do not seem to have a way of getting to sysinstall!!!
> 
> 

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