Hello,

will antiX run on some archaic PC ? (AMD-K6 at 266MHz, 96MB RAM)
I`m trying to install it on this machine with lots of limitiation (broken CD, no USB booting support, ...)
Going the boot from HDD way...Installed Grub4Dos loader on it, working fine.
Now I dlded the ISO, extracted it to standalone directory /hda1/antiX/.
Now the loader is in /hda1/antiX/boot/initrd.gz

adapted the menu.lst entry from another distro and it looks this:

title antiX Live CD
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /antiX/boot/initrd.gz
kernel /antiX/boot/vmlinuz pmedia=atahd root=/dev/ram0
initrd /antiX/boot/initrd.gz
boot

Unfortunatelly it doesnot boot successfully (abunch of error messages complaining it can`t execeute /bin/sh or something wrong with tty), followed by computer lock. I think I need some working menu entry for this, thanks in advance.

Firstly, you will need antiX-486 version for k5/k6.

Secondly, I don't know how grub4dos works, but for grub-legacy that antiX uses, the grub entry should be something like this.

title antiX
kernel (hd0,0)/antiX/vmlinuz vga=791 fromhd=/dev/sda1 en xres=1024x768
initrd (hd0,0)/antiX/initrd.gz
boot

where the vmlinuz and initrd.gz files are placed in hda1/antiX

anticapitalista wrote:where the vmlinuz and initrd.gz files are placed in hda1/antiX

should the antiX file be placed too at hda1/antiX or should I leave it where it is? (hda1/antiX/antiX/antiX)

anticapitalista wrote:title antiX
kernel (hd0,0)/antiX/vmlinuz vga=791 fromhd=/dev/sda1 en xres=1024x768
initrd (hd0,0)/antiX/initrd.gz
boot

tried this and got another errors (/linux/bin/rm: not found, /bin/mount: not found, creating the ramdisk failed, ERROR: CANNOT UNITE READ-ONLY MEDIA AND INITIAL RAMDISK!, cannot create /var/run/utmp: Directory nonexistant)

Try putting the initrd.gz, vmlinuz and antiX-M11-486.iso in the same folder eg called antiX

Then grub should look like this for the folder on hda1

title antiX-M11-486
root (hd0,0)
kernel /antiX/vmlinuz quiet noxorg vga=791 fromiso=/antiX/antiX-m11-486.iso rootdelay=15
initrd /antiX/initrd.gz

Install OK. Now antiX is installed on /dev/sda11 which I don't know partition number.
Didnot install the grub of antiX to sda/MBR since I already have there another grub installed, instead it I installed to sda11 PBR. How should now the antiX entry in sda1/menu.lst look? Normally I would use something like this:

title antiX (sda11/boot)
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /boot/vmlinuz
kernel /boot/vmlinuz quiet nosplash drvr=vesa vsync=73-77 root=/dev/sda11
initrd /boot/initrd.gz

but probably it won't work since another Linux is at /dev/sda9 already.
Any other way how to indentify antiX partition to grub at sda1?

Yet 2 questions about antiX setup: During install from Live CD I choosed /dev/sda10 which is Linux temp as swap drive but probably was in use already because the install crashed. then I left temp partition as none or existing which installed ok but is it OK for antiX to use /dev/sda10 as temp?
How to specify driver, resolution and vertical frequency for graphic card explicitly? Can antiX run in 1024x768x8 mode or do I have to use 800x600x16?
Thank you

I have problem now with accessing any drives outside AntiX internal FS. Whenewer I try to access other local partition, I get this error:

Mounting /mnt/sda1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
Mount failed

Done
There was one error.

Resolution ?

Post contents of /etc/fstab

also

inxi -pluo