Fw: Installed Hurd successfully
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dibyendu Majumdar" <dibyendu@mazumdar.demon.co.uk>
To: "Marcus Brinkmann" <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: Installed Hurd successfully
> > On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:15:58PM -0000, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> > > The PC I installed Hurd on has only 16MB of RAM. I think this caused
> > > native-install to fail because it ran out of memory. I fixed the
problem
> by
> > > creating a swap space (64M) before executing native-install. I wonder
if
> the
> > > installation guides should recommend this.
> >
> > Probably. This is slightly complicated though, as you need to edit the
> file
> > /etc/fstab before you boot into the Hurd, then boot into single user
mode,
> > set up the device file (and before you can do this with MAKEDEV, you
need
> to
> > set up some other translators), and run swapon -a manually.
> >
> > Probably native-install should contain some code to filter out the
devices
> > used in /etc/fstab and create device files for them and then run
> swapon -a.
> > How about this?
>
> Well, actually, I edited the /boot/servers.boot file - added the line that
> enables the swap. This I did immediately after I had untarred from the
> tarball. Then when I booted using the floppy, Hurd seemed to pick up the
> swap device.
>
> Ofcourse, this was on my second attempt, as after the memory problems I
had
> to rebuild my Hurd partition.
>
> Regards
>
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