From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 24 13:47:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merganser.its.uu.se (merganser.its.uu.se [130.238.6.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E7137BC55 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:46:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se) Received: from regulus.student.UU.SE ([130.238.5.2]:36113 "HELO ertr1013.student.csd.uu.se") by merganser.its.uu.se with SMTP id ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 22:46:23 +0100 Received: (qmail 3755 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Mar 2000 21:46:11 -0000 Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 22:46:11 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Brad Buran Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000324224610.A3739@student.csd.uu.se> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from bburan@wam.umd.edu on Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 04:28:45PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 04:28:45PM -0500, Brad Buran wrote: > Ok, last try before i give up and go back to Linux. I am trying to > install freebsd on an old computer (pentium I, 8 meg ram) and it crashes > at various points in the installation telling me "process > killed: not enough swap space". as a result, I have to start over. this > all happens during the initial configuration steps, before i can commit to > writing to the disk. Ideas anyone? > Yep, the installation programs needs more memory than you have. I think that 3.4 requires at least 12MB to install. Try installing an older version of FreeBSD and then upgrading from that. (I know for a fact that FreeBSD 3.2 can be installed on a computer with only 8MB of RAM.) Or put some more memory in the computer at least temporary. (After the install is finished and swap has been configured you can get by with 8MB.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message