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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
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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
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Jordan K. Hubbard	FreeBSD core team	Clams are your friends