Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 16:22:32 +0200 (CEST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?m=20p?= <sumirati@yahoo.de> To: mdp1261@rit.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.4-Release on 386DX w/ 8MB RAM Message-ID: <20011001142232.50452.qmail@web13303.mail.yahoo.com>
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... > I tried to do an FTP install of 4.4-Release on an old 386-40 w/ 8MB of RAM, > but the install fails immediately after I setup the network. I receive the > error message, "Cannot resolve hostname '[Insert arbitrary FTP site name]'! > Are you sure that the name server, gateway and network interface are > correctly configured?" > ... > > 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? > ... Hi Matt, yes, somewhere since FreeBSD 4.x the amount of memory needed for _installation_ changed to 12 MB. In the mailing list archives it is mentioned sometimes. Hope that helps Marc __________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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