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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
Subject: Re: out of memory during installation
Date: Sun Jun 3 14:50:02 2001
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 11:22:18AM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote:

> I guess this is a 2.4er kernel problem. Such things happen if no swap
> space is allocated.

OK; so before extracting sys.tbz2, people using the boot/rootdisk should
do a:

# swapon /dev/hda?

This should work.  With swap activated, things should go more smoothly.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@g.o>
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