From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 27 21:36:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from imo-m03.mx.aol.com (imo-m03.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27AD637B71F for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:36:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from AMDMCG@aol.com) Received: from AMDMCG@aol.com by imo-m03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v29.5.) id n.31.11101228 (7703) for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 00:36:34 -0500 (EST) From: AMDMCG@aol.com Message-ID: <31.11101228.27cde862@aol.com> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 00:36:34 EST Subject: HeLP!!! i am trying to install bsd linux and it wont install or give me err msg To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_31.11101228.27cde862_boundary" Content-Disposition: Inline X-Mailer: 6.0 sub 10502 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --part1_31.11101228.27cde862_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable FreeBSD Support, I am an experienced UNIX user but new to LINUX and BSD. I am trying to install a new version I got at the LINUX Expo in NYC in Feb20= 01 onto an old 486/dx33 gateway PC with a Sony CDROM drive and 15" SVGA monitor with 8 MB ram and 405 MB hard-drive. The initial config installer sees all the devices except for my Sony CDROM=20 drive. I get to the final point where I hit return and I tell it to reformat my=20 hard-drive and install the LINUX Os from the CDROM drive and all I see is a blue screen= =20 with a white cursor in lower left corner. If I hit the num_lock key I get to a DO= S=20 prompt screen that says the following: =A0... it spits out a line a second and it r= uns=20 off the monitor and never changes or stops ... infinite loop ... pid 12 (sh), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space. Whatever help or links you could email me would be helpful and greatly=20 appreciated. Thanks! Andrew. supported for read-only access by the CDROM driver. WORM/CD-R/CD-RW writing=20 support is provided by cdrecord, which is in the ports tree. The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time: cd - SCSI interface (includes ProAudio Spectrum and SoundBlaster SCSI) matcd - Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary interface=20 (562/563 models) scd - Sony proprietary interface (all models) acd - ATAPI IDE interface The following drivers were supported under the old SCSI subsystem, but=20 --part1_31.11101228.27cde862_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable FreeBSD Support,
I am an experienced UNIX user but new to LINUX and BSD.
I am trying to install a new version I got at the LINUX Expo in NYC in F= eb2001
onto an old 486/dx33 gateway PC with a Sony CDROM drive and 15" SVGA mon= itor
with 8 MB ram and 405 MB hard-drive.
The initial config installer sees all the devices except for my Sony CDR= OM=20
drive.
I get to the final point where I hit return and I tell it to reformat my= =20
hard-drive
and install the LINUX Os from the CDROM drive and all I see is a blue sc= reen=20
with
a white cursor in lower left corner. If I hit the num_lock key I get to=20= a DOS=20
prompt
screen that says the following: =A0... it spits out a line a second and=20= it runs=20
off the monitor and never changes or stops ... infinite loop ...
pid 12 (sh), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space.

Whatever help or links you could email me would be helpful and greatly=20
appreciated.
Thanks!
Andrew.

supported for read-only access by the CDROM driver. WORM/CD-R/CD-RW writ= ing=20
support is provided by cdrecord, which is in the ports tree.
The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:

cd - SCSI interface (includes ProAudio Spectrum and SoundBlaster SCSI)

matcd - Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary interfa= ce=20
(562/563 models)

scd - Sony proprietary interface (all models)

acd - ATAPI IDE interface
The following drivers were supported under the old SCSI subsystem, but=20


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