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From: "C. O'Donnell" <codonnell@bus.net>
Subject: Yessir: Re: 386 won't boot from 2.1 boot.flp
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At 04:15 PM 3/10/96 +0200, Oleg N Panashchenko wrote:
>: I am trying to upgrade a 386DX-33 w/387, 4 Mb ram, IDE drive to 2.1
>
>: A kernel compiled on another machine and copied over will boot without
>: problem, but a dd'ed boot.flp disk yields the message attached below.
>
>: 2) Not enough ram?
>^^^^ Yes, you need at least 5Mb to boot from boot.flp. 
>     boot.flp creates 1MB RAM disk (Memory File System), so you need
>     additional 1Mb. As I know, this should be fixed in future release.
>
>: 3) Since I can get a compiled kernel to boot, is there some other
>:    way to upgrade 2.0.5 -> 2.1 from an NFS:/cdrom without the
>:    using the boot.flp?
>
>Backup your 2.0.5 /etc directory and run install.sh, which is located near
>bindist. Either from CD or any other mounted filesystem 
>This is possible at 4Mb machine.
>
>Then restore your /etc. Or (better) recall your changes in /etc/*
>and add them manually to new /etc.
>
>Of course, if you changed something in /bin /sbin /usr/bin and other 
>system-util dirs, you need to backup and restore (recompile?) them too.
>
>Oleg
>

Oleg,

Yessir, you are correct sir. This worked perfectly.
I mounted NFS:/cdrom -> /mnt and ran /mnt/dists/bin/install.sh
Some manual config necessary, but that's no problem.
Thanks again!

Chuck