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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:39:45 -0600 (CST)
From:      Phillip Nguyen <nguyenp@eecs.tulane.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   running out of swap space during installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.1010328092733.22599C-100000@juno>

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I'm a newbie trying to install the 4.2-RELEASE version of FreeBSD onto a
60mhz pentium with 8mb of ram.  I'm booting up from floppies.  During the
installation (usually around the "Choose Distributions" screen) the system
will hang and leave me with a blank blue screen.  If I press ALT-F2 at
this point, I see a screen being flooded with the message

   pid 12 (sh), uid 0, was killed:  out of swap space. 

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?  Is there some way for me to work around
this problem so that I can finish the installation?  Thanks in advance,

--phillip



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