From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) Subject: Re: A little linux xmas success story Date: 15 Dec 1992 04:14:22 GMT
In article <1992Dec12.195027.5890@sol.UVic.CA> pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
>
>From the readme:
>] to boot from your harddrive. Note that if you have less than 4 Meg of RAM,
>] you will need to make and activate a 4 Meg swap partition, prior to installation.
>] For example, using /dev/hda3 for swap: "mkswap /dev/hda3 4096; swapon /dev/hda3"
>
I had a short (very short!) experience running Linux on a 386SX-25 with
2 MB, and I would like to add a little advice.
Be sure you have "swapon" in your /etc/rc file before doing an "fsck".
Otherwise, you'll probably run out of memory.
(I experienced this with an older distribution of Linux that had "swapon"
after "fsck". This may have already been corrected.)
-- Jim H. * * James L. Henrickson | "I don't need a signature, I need a job!" * ujlh@sunyit.edu | BSCS, December 1992