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From: phill@rd.bbc.co.uk (Phil Layton)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0R
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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?

: Ian
: -- 

Yes I added 2M to the test machine and the install went reasonably OK from 
there on.  I wanted to confirm the cause of the original problem before I
opened up another machine to find some extra memory to put in the test machine.

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