From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 28 7:39:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rex.eecs.tulane.edu (rex.eecs.tulane.edu [129.81.132.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 372C937B71D for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 07:39:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nguyenp@eecs.tulane.edu) Received: from (nguyenp@juno [129.81.132.63]) by rex.eecs.tulane.edu for Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:39:45 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost by juno.eecs.tulane.edu; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:39:45 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:39:45 -0600 (CST) From: Phillip Nguyen X-Sender: nguyenp@juno To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: running out of swap space during installation Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message