Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 23:29:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca>, Brian Dean <brdean@mindspring.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't install on machine with 8 Meg Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906132322200.8613-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9906132053350.20031-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 01:08:00PM -0400, Brian Dean wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm installing 4.0-19990610-SNAP onto a machine with 8 Meg of memory > > > and it fails as follows: > > > > > > pid 6 (sh), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space > > > > There's a rumour going around that you need 12 meg to install. Why, I > > don't know. > > Becuase in 8MB sysinstall mysteriously tanks during extraction, and works > fine with 12. No error message is produced, so I'm guessing it's a > non- or silently-errorchecked malloc(). I can reproduce this. The docs > are all wrong, thus the PR. > > Took us a while to figure out what was going on as NO ERROR MESSAGE WAS > PRODUCED I got 3.1 installed on an 8 MB machine, with a little bit of tweaking. I was doing it over PPP, so having the PPP client running and eating up some memory wasn't helping any. By creating a custom installation kernel with most of the unneeded devices removed, freeing up about a whole 1MB of RAM, everything went OK. It may be that freeing up just a few hundred KB of RAM would be enough to squeak by. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures (SPARC under development). ( http://www.freebsd.org ) "One should admire Windows users. It takes a great deal of courage to trust Windows with your data." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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