Hi list!

To make sure all of you can have a nice weekend, I report the
following problem. Please bear with me if I miss something obvious,
as I think this problem should not occur at all.

After having built a tarball for a 'build installation' and having burnt
that thing to a CD, I grabbed root and rescue disk, booted them,
created reiser file systems on my partitions and mounted them. Then
I tried

  bzip2 -dc /mnt/cdrom/nameofmytarball.tbz2 | tar -xvf -

which starts, and then breaks after some time with the message:

Out of Memory: Killed process 175 (sash)

The box has 64 megs of RAM, the tarball is about 350megs in size. Weird
enough, this also happens with the default-i686-20010524.tbz2 archive
from ibiblio.org.


The more time I spend with gentoo, and the more traffic I generate on
the list, the more I want to have that thing up and running! =)


Achim, Daniel -- and the rest of you all who answered too, thank you! --,
I will get back to you because of the magazine article next week; I have
loads of other work to do before I can dive into gentoo the way it
deserves.


thorsten

--

thorsten fischer

<frosch at derfrosch dot de>
<tfischer at linux minus magazin dot de>

groessere mengen hostien sind schwer zu beschaffen