From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin) Subject: Re: SLS install in 2 MB Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 00:19:03 GMT
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).
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...
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