[Rule-list] Miniconda on 8Mb

[Richard Kweskin]

Hello All

On pc#18 (Richard's laptop) a miniconda install using all 16 mb had been a 
success. Thus hda (only hdd) was already partitioned

hda1    49mb    ext3    /boot
hda2    190mb   swap
hda3    1055mb  Extended
hda5    1055mb  ext3    /

Armed with this, miniconda version 0.7.2 went:

1 booting with pcmcia.img disk, typed linux mem=8M updates
2 inserted pcmciadd.img disk when asked
3 declined driver's disk option
4 always took defaults
5 chose laptop install
6 inserted updates disk when asked
7 updates disk duly read
8 moving on...
9 took ages in "loading anaconda..." stage
10 switched to vt2 and typed:

        mknod /dev/hda b 3 0
        mknod /dev/hda2 b 3 2
        mkswap /dev/hda2
        swapon /dev/hda2

11 the echo of typed characters came out a slow crawl, but made it!
12 switched back to vt1, the hdd led was already going mad
13 install proceeds, hooray!
14 on to partitioning: first looked with fdisk, chose edit hda1 to check 
mount point, saw "mount point:(not applicable)" but with ext3
15 same for hda3
16 backed out and chose disk druid, but same screens, exactly!
17 tried ok without altering anything but it complained of no root partition
18 deleted hda1, chose new, /boot, but had no option for ext3 so took ext2
19 after a while it came out with first partition still being "free space" 
while hda5 was /boot and ext2 !!
20 (supposing I had wrongly redone hda5) edited hda5 to be / instead of /boot
21 again chose first free space, chose new, etc. as before but came out with 
same free space in what was hda1 and a new hda6, with 5 & 6 each half of hda3
22 backed out, started again druid and just edit on hda1 & 5
23 came out this time with original setup but ext2 not 3, ok'ed this
24 warned all 3 partitions were going to be formatted (wondered what was 
going to happen to "early" swap space) said yes
25 warned hda busy, chose ignore (no other choice shown)
26 same warning, same act
27 error enabling swap device hda2: device busy, press ok to reboot