Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 11:18:46 +0800 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@svzserv.kemerovo.su> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing w/ 8MB RAM Message-ID: <3B6F5E16.F3233853@svzserv.kemerovo.su> References: <20010806130637.W57967-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
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"Brandon D. Valentine" wrote: > I've got a P100 laptop with 8MB of RAM on which I'd like to install > FreeBSD. My only install option on this laptop is a network install, as > it has no CDROM. I have a PCMCIA NIC that works with the xe driver. > Upon booting with kern and mfsroot floppies, I am given the option to > configure PCMCIA services, which I do. However, I am unable to select > xe0 as an install device. Switching to ttyv1 reveals an error message > indicating that the installer could not launch pccardd because it ran > out of swap space. Does anyone have recommendations on how to free up > enough memory to run pccard during the install? I can build custom > install floppies if necessary, I've got other FreeBSD/i386 machines. You need not build custom floppies. Starting from 4.2-RELEASE you can install FreeBSD on mashine with 8Mb with only trick: after sysinstall loaded, select 'Custom' installation then make partitioning of hard disk. Create a swap partition there and hit 'W'. This will activate swap and installation will continue OK then. Eugene Grosbein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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