Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:34:22 -0600 From: Mike Porter <mupi@mknet.org> To: Matt Penna <mdp1261@rit.edu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.4-Release on 386DX w/ 8MB RAM Message-ID: <200110011834.f91IYMH11476@c1828785-a.saltlk1.ut.home.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010930191312.03069dd0@vmspop.rit.edu> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010930191312.03069dd0@vmspop.rit.edu>
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On Monday 01 October 2001 08:05 am, Matt Penna wrote: > Dear folks, > > > When I receive the error, switching the console using Alt-F2 shows an > obvious problem. At the very bottom are two lines that read as follows: > > DEBUG: ifconfig ep0 inet 192.168.10.1 netmask 255.255.255.0pid 19 (sh), > uid 0 was killed: out of swap space > DEBUG: Adding default route to 192.168.10.254pid 20 (sh), uid0 was killed: > out of swap space > > There are other similar messages preceding these two stating "out of swap > space," but none of these are pertinent to the network setup, nor are they > prepended with "DEBUG:" They also appear during the 4.3 install so I > presume, perhaps incorrectly, they are not critical. > > Did 4.4-Release introduce heightened memory requirements that make > installation impossible on a machine with 8MB of RAM? Is this a very > strange install bug? Or am I simply doing something wrong? > > suggestion 1 would be to increase your swap space. You *might* be able to get things to work, since you have gotten that far, with enough of a swap partition. However, as previously noted, BSD requires more than 8MB to install (read: to run sysinstall) You could add more ram temporarily, or, if you still have 4.3 on the machine, then use 4.3 and use the cvsup method to upgrade. Although you mentioned that this was not an upgade, that you had wiped the HD, so that may not be an option. Another suggestion that works for some people is to build the install on a PC that has sufficient RAM, then move the hard drive into the other machine. the caveat here is that if you compile a custom kernel, you needc to be sure to put in the i386 stuff, or it will break. (I accidentally did this on my p3 compiling a kernel for a pentium laptop. needless to say it didn't work <(};) mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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