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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kei.com!newshost.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!news.hal.COM!decwrl!amd!amdahl.com!juts.ccc.amdahl.com!izo30 From: izo30@ccc.amdahl.com (Ian O'Brien) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0R Message-ID: <1994Nov27.195746.24427@ccc.amdahl.com> Reply-To: izo30@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Ian O'Brien) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA References: <Czw36t.F0@bbc.co.uk> <3b8aj9$2mf@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <JKH.94Nov27145107@whisker.hubbard.ie> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 1994 19:57:46 GMT Lines: 26 In article <JKH.94Nov27145107@whisker.hubbard.ie> jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >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. > I have the same problems as the original poster - my *2* Mb system won't go any further in the install program than the newfs for the root partition. I get errors: "Process 4 killed by vm_pageout -- out of swap". I assume that getting more swap space would help me out but how can I execute swapon from the install program? I'm using FreeBSD-2.0-RELEASE. Any hints anyone? Ian -- =-= Ian O'Brien UN?X Systems Adminstrator, Amdahl Ireland Limited -=- -=- Phone: +353-1-8403001 or +353-1-7046312 Fax: +353-1-8403776 =-= =-= Amail ID: izo30 InterNet mail: izo30@ail.amdahl.com -=-