From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 12 13: 5:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles540.castles.com [208.214.165.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7918614BFA for ; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 13:05:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01001; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 13:02:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199906122002.NAA01001@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Brian Dean Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't install on machine with 8 Meg In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 12 Jun 1999 13:08:00 EDT." <199906121708.NAA01277@vger.foo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 13:02:52 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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? Run != install. Install on a system with more memory and move the disk. It's also possible (depending on which phase you're at) that you've not made a swap partition. Note also that the handbook typically refers to -stable, not -current. That may be irrelevant in this particular case, however, as I don't know of any tests on 4M systems for 3.2. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message