From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 28 10:55:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDBF637B726 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 10:55:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lowell@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f2SIsr011546; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 13:54:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, nguyenp@eecs.tulane.edu Subject: Re: running out of swap space during installation References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 28 Mar 2001 13:54:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: nguyenp@eecs.tulane.edu's message of "28 Mar 2001 17:39:56 +0200" Message-ID: <44lmppk9ky.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG nguyenp@eecs.tulane.edu (Phillip Nguyen) writes: > I'm a newbie trying to install the 4.2-RELEASE version of FreeBSD onto a > 60mhz pentium with 8mb of ram. I'm booting up from floppies. During the > installation (usually around the "Choose Distributions" screen) the system > will hang and leave me with a blank blue screen. If I press ALT-F2 at > this point, I see a screen being flooded with the message > > pid 12 (sh), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space. > > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Is there some way for me to work around > this problem so that I can finish the installation? Thanks in advance, 8MB is very tight for the FreeBSD installer, although the OS itself will run in that once installed. Try doing an absolute minimum install, giving yourself plenty of swap (at least 20MB, maybe twice that). Then, once it boots, go back to install everything else you want. Good luck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message