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From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@svzserv.kemerovo.su>
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To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>
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Subject: Re: Installing w/ 8MB RAM
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"Brandon D. Valentine" wrote:

> I've got a P100 laptop with 8MB of RAM on which I'd like to install
> FreeBSD.  My only install option on this laptop is a network install, as
> it has no CDROM.  I have a PCMCIA NIC that works with the xe driver.
> Upon booting with kern and mfsroot floppies, I am given the option to
> configure PCMCIA services, which I do.  However, I am unable to select
> xe0 as an install device.  Switching to ttyv1 reveals an error message
> indicating that the installer could not launch pccardd because it ran
> out of swap space.  Does anyone have recommendations on how to free up
> enough memory to run pccard during the install?  I can build custom
> install floppies if necessary, I've got other FreeBSD/i386 machines.

You need not build custom floppies. Starting from 4.2-RELEASE you
can install FreeBSD on mashine with 8Mb with only trick:
after sysinstall loaded, select 'Custom' installation then
make partitioning of hard disk. Create a swap partition there and
hit 'W'. This will activate swap and installation will continue OK then.

Eugene Grosbein

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