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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0R Date: 27 Nov 1994 14:51:07 GMT Organization: Jordan Hubbard Lines: 18 Message-ID: <JKH.94Nov27145107@whisker.hubbard.ie> References: <Czw36t.F0@bbc.co.uk> <3b8aj9$2mf@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.hubbard.ie In-reply-to: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu's message of 26 Nov 1994 21:50:33 GMT In article <3b8aj9$2mf@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) writes: The error code is perfectly clear: the system ran out of swap. I had this problem when I tried to install 2.0-ALPHA on a 386SX16 with only 4 megs of RAM. I managed to get further than you: I was able to get all the way to The swapon wasn't working properly with 2.0A. This should be fixed in 2.0R. all rolled into one binary that's over 1 meg in size. Presumeably this was done to save space (it may be that several small statically linked binaries take up more room than one really big one). If you don't have enough RAM Much less space - you're not linking in the libraries multiple times. Jordan -- Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Clams are your friends