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- From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin)
- Subject: Re: SLS install in 2 MB
- In-Reply-To: sior@i50s3.NoSubdomain.NoDomain's message of 6 Nov 1992 08:42:23 GMT
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- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 00:19:03 GMT
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- In article <Bx94ur.8wq@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk) writes:
- |> I've got the SLS version and when I do a "doinstall" it tells me
- |> I'm out of memory (I've only got 2 MB).
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- and sior@i50s3 (Marios Siormanolakis) responds, correctly and in detail:
- >I've had the same problem.
- >My solution:
- >1. create Linux partition as mentioned in README (eg /dev/hda2)
- >2. additional create a swap partition (eg /dev/hda3)
- >6. mkfs /dev/hda2 BLOCKS
- The one other possible problem is that if /dev/hda2 is big
- enough, mkfs will run out of memory; you can get more room by hitting
- Alt-F2 and typing "exit" to the second shell that SLS automatically
- starts. (I needed this to mkfs 60M on an AST laptop...)
- I don't know, offhand, *why* mkfs uses memory in proportion to
- the size of the partition; I'll look at it this weekend if noone else
- has any suggestions...
- _Mark_ <eichin@athena.mit.edu>
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