> > I am trying to install 1.5 on a 486 laptop equipped with 4MB RAM. I am
> > dependent on fetching the distribution sets from a msdos partition.
Reading
> > small files (for e.g. autoconf.bat) from that partition is O.K. ls(1)
even
> > works. While accessing larger files (etc.tgz is enough) the hdd led is
lit
> > for 2 seconds and then the system stalls. Sometimes the console is
working
> [ snip ]
>
> Maybe you're running out of memory -- have you tried enabling swap before
> continuing with the installation?
>

Sorry, forgot to mention it, enough swap is enabled (and used!).
The problem is a 100MB FAT16 partition, and MSDOS works fine on it.

Thomas