From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 12 10: 9:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.mindspring.com (smtp1.mindspring.com [207.69.200.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B69D014DB8 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 10:09:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdean@mindspring.com) Received: from vger.foo.com (user-2ivf0cj.dialup.mindspring.com [165.247.129.147]) by smtp1.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAB17855 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 13:09:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bsd@localhost) by vger.foo.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA01277; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 13:08:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsd) From: Brian Dean Message-Id: <199906121708.NAA01277@vger.foo.com> Subject: can't install on machine with 8 Meg To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 13:08:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm installing 4.0-19990610-SNAP onto a machine with 8 Meg of memory and it fails as follows: pid 6 (sh), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space The handbook claims that you can run the system in as little as 4 meg. It is very misleading to claim this if you can't install it. Or maybe I've missed some special instructions for installing the system on a low-memory machine? Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean brdean@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message