[RULE] Attempt 3: Toshiba Satellite 115CS

[Da Worm]

It turns out I'm in town after all.  So I figured I'd try again with a new 
16bit PCMCIA card I picked up for $17 on eBay.

The good news:
  I can run pcmcia.sh start and bring up the network, ping other machines 
on and off my lan, the whole ball of wax.  Hooray!

The bad news:
  I couldn't format my hard disk.

When I get the the disk prep area of the setup.sh script, I answer as follows:

Filesystem: ext3
Device: hda
Partition: Tried using existing partitions, then used fdisk to delete and recreate 
	a 64M swap and a 1G / 
Select / : hda3
Format? : yes

I see messages about mounting the swap followed by "Creating root file system".  
Then I get a crash.  If I rerun setup.sh, then when I get to that point, it just sits 
there after the Creating root file system" message.  It isn't exactly locked up, 
because if I hit ENTER the cursor drops one line, or if I type, the characters 
appear on screen.  But there is no disk activity.

* NEWS FLASH *

As I was typing this, I was reproducing the steps so I could show the crash dump.
I had already tried the mem=16M kernel parameter to no effect, but the nature
of the crash led me to believe it was a memory problem, so I tried mem=12M and
lo and behold, the disk formats.

Installing packages over FTP right now!

Thanks all!
Jeff.





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