Re: Mundane question about memory needed
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- Subject: Re: Mundane question about memory needed
- From: Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>
- Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 16:40:22 -0500
- Message-id: <r8rg874zsp.church.of.emacs@space-ghost.verbum.private>
- In-reply-to: <5.0.0.25.2.20011102161854.00b05370@146.186.157.10> (Mike Yukish's message of "Fri, 02 Nov 2001 16:21:56 -0500")
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Mike Yukish <mikeyukish@psu.edu> writes:
> I am a Linux newbie, and I just managed to get the Debian 2.2 R3
> booted up on my PowerMac 7600/120. Tried to do 'startx' and the
> kernel paniced. I loaded the Gnome package on the initial
> installation.
What was the text from the kernel panic? It should be in
/var/log/syslog.
> Before I go any further in troubleshooting, I should mention I only
> have 16 MB RAM, and selected 16 MB virtual ram in the Mac control
> panel.
Changing your "virtual ram" in the Mac control panel will have no
effect on what you do in Debian.
> Would it crash for not enough RAM? I'm going to buy more anyway, but
> I was curious if that could be the cause right there, and not fiddle
> with the software until I do get the RAM.
The kernel shouldn't panic; it should just kill some processes.
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