Re: Broken loop device
Andreas Jaehnigen wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> thanks for the reply...
>
> > sorry for the late reply, I was too busy to read all my emails last week :-(
> >
>
> But you know: It's never too late! :-)
>
> > How many memory is installed in your SLC ?
>
> You've got the problem! :-)
> It has only 8 megs installed - somewhat tiny, hm? :-(
> In the meantime, I figured out what you've been writing and I'm trying to get done with a (temporarily) installiation onto a local disk. Unfortunately, the SLC hangs (again!!) during filesystem creation, seems to be tight on memory again.
> But how can this happen? I succesfully managed to create a swap partition (about 128 megs)...
Is your swap space really available ? (look at /proc/meminfo)
I'm sorry but I don't have any further ideas :-(
I don't promise you I will have time to work on it, but I will try to install
on a low memory system (after I removed some memory banks out of one of my
sparc) to see what happens exactly...
Regards.
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Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires.
delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
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