Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 10:31:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@sidwell.edu> To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.0.5-RELEASE update (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.950612103125.28129A-100000@gateway.us.sidwell.edu>
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Robert Watson rwatson@sidwell.edu http://www.sidwell.edu/~rwatson/ The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 09:45:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@sidwell.edu> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com> Subject: Re: 2.0.5-RELEASE update Essentially -- I boot up, go to the menu program, and allocate the partitions and labels. Then I try to begin the rest of the installation, telling it what distirbutions to load. I choose medi, etc, and then commit. It tries to create the partitions (including swap, I guess) and things begin to die at this point, and I end up back at the menu with essentially nothing done (the parititions get made, slices get made, but no installation or newfs'ing occurs.) Since this is pre hd-swap, I don't see that I can allocate more swap ;). The HD parition I assign for swapping in the label section is 17 megs, which should be more than enough. It just isn't swapping at that point in the process. I'll try the dynamic ppp stuff once I get to the point where it will load -- I was just curious as it seemed to require config entries in the ppp config section. Thanks again. On Mon, 12 Jun 1995, Gary Palmer wrote: > In message <Pine.BSD/.3.91.950612093420.27756A-100000@gateway.us.sidwell.edu>, > Robert Watson writes: > >I'm still having difficulties udner the new boot disk under 4 megs -- I > >run out of swap space regularly during the installation procedure, and > >the processes for the installation get killed. Looks like just a little > >more space is needed even now.. I sent a more indepth description to > >bugs@freebsd.org a minute or so ago. It may just be a problem at my end, > >but the 2.0R disk worked fine on my system. > > Allocate more swap space and see if that helps. On a 4Mb machine, I > would generally recommend 16Mb's, as your machine is extremely limited > for main memory. I've passed this on to our local guru in this area. > I would certainly say if it boots, and you are getting processes > killed after boot due to lack of swap space, increase your swap space > allocation. Of course, if this is before you have a chance to allocate > and use swap, that is another problem :-( > > >Also, is there any support for dynamic IP allocation under PPP at this > >point, and if not, has SLIP support been removed in the installation (I > >have static SLIP available, and dynamic PPP ;). > > If you feed the system the correct information, I believe it will do > dynamic address resolution, although it may only be for the servers > end. I can't remember off hand. I know that ijppp can use dynamic > addressing, and that is the protocol module we are using. > > SLIP is supported, but only for hard wired links, i.e. you can't dial > out and connect via a modem. > > Sorry I can't be of more help, but the last week has kind of drained me :-( > > Gary > > Robert Watson rwatson@sidwell.edu http://www.sidwell.edu/~rwatson/ The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.
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