From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 1 7: 8:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout6.nyroc.rr.com (mailout6-1.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E67637B409 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 07:06:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sonic.rit.edu (roc-24-93-27-75.rochester.rr.com [24.93.27.75]) by mailout6.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/Road Runner 1.12) with ESMTP id f91E5xH00318 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 10:05:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010930191312.03069dd0@vmspop.rit.edu> X-Sender: mdp1261@osfpop.rit.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 10:05:02 -0400 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Matt Penna Subject: 4.4-Release on 386DX w/ 8MB RAM Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear folks, I've been using FreeBSD since just before 3.2, so I'm not new at this, but I have run into a problem and I have no idea as to exactly what's causing it. Please let me know if you need more information and I'll do my best to provide whatever you need. 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?" I am not using IPv6 or DHCP. Everything is specified correctly and identical settings work with 4.3-Release, which installed and ran flawlessly. Specifying an FTP site by IP address also fails. This is not an upgrade installation - the hard disk was wiped a short time ago and I am starting from scratch. I am using a 3COM 3C509 in this machine. After the kernel configuration, all devices seem to be correctly probed. 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? I will leave the machine as is until I can figure out what happened. Truthfully, there is little reason for me to be running 4.4 on this machine instead of 4.3. If 4.4 introduced new requirements that are as yet undocumented, I'm hoping to help someone else avoid future problems - even if not too many people have 386 8MB machines in production these days. :) Any help would be appreciated! Let me know if you need more specifics. Matt -- Matt Penna soba@usagiyojimbo.com mdp1261@rit.edu ICQ: 399825 S0ba on AOLIM "The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots." -Dr. Who To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message