Hello,

I am trying to install 2.8 on an old 386. I always get a kernel panic
just as it starts downloading files. Something about a page fault in
supervisor mode.

The machine has a 1.2GB, 2485 cylinder disk. I don't think the BIOS
supports any kind of LBA. There is a 300MB or so DOS partition at the
start of the disk. I have tried all kinds of variations of keeping
things under the 1024 cylinder limit. First I tried just the root
filesystem. Then I tried root and swap. Now I just tried installing
on one 100MB partition, which would all be below the 1024 cylinder
limit, and leaving the rest of the disk unused. It still panics just
when it says it is fetching base28.tgz.

I tried 2.8, 2.7, 2.6, in case it was just a random problem, but all
do the same thing. I also tried disabling pcibios. I even downloaded
the installation files to a local partition, and tricked the
installation script into not newfsing it, so I could do the install
without the network card even in the machine at all. Still the same
problem when it tries to extract.

Any ideas? Don't tell me I will have to put Linux on it.

- Alan

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