From owner-freebsd-small Mon Aug 6 10:11:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-d.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.13.43.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8835937B401; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 10:11:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Received: by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 33A1F3E8D; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 13:13:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30AF3BA7E; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 13:13:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 13:13:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Cc: Subject: Installing w/ 8MB RAM Message-ID: <20010806130637.W57967-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Please leave me in the Cc:, I'm not subscribed] [Cc:'d freebsd-small thinking those folks might have some ideas] 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. -- "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time." -- /usr/games/fortune, 07/30/2001 Brandon D. Valentine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message