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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!destroyer!news.itd.umich.edu!tiamat.umd.umich.edu!crt From: crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu (Rob Shady) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Out of memory? Date: 23 Mar 93 14:36:09 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Lines: 13 Message-ID: <crt.732897369@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cw-u03.umd.umich.edu Okay, I don't understand this, I thought that the install program auto-magically installed a swap partition on your hard drive during installation, and I am now coming to the conclusion that it hadn't. After installing a fresh 386bsd 0.1 system, I downloaded the NEw and IMPROVED patch kit, installed ALL patches, rebuilt the kernel, rebooted, then ran the build world script. It ran most of the night, then crashed when it tried compiling GCC. From past experience working with 386bsd, I have noticed it crash when it runs out of memory... I have 8 Megs of RAM in my machine, and a 200 MB Maxtor HD. After checking /etc/fstab I am beginning to think that this MAY be the problem since it does not list a swap partition. What can I do short of reinstalling the whole package?? Is there a swap partition somewhere that it can't find? Where is the source to the install program???