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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0R
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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 1994 23:18:25 GMT
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> 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?

Yes: get another 2Mb ram.  4 Mb is the minimum we support.

Poul-Henning
FreeBSD core team