Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From:	Michael Rychlik <michael.rychlik@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject:	[gentoo-dev] out of memory during installation
Date:	Sun, 03 Jun 2001 03:51:11
Message-Id:	`3B1A07A7.2C7D606E@welho.com`

1	Hi
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3	I had the same problem with 96 megs of RAM !
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5	The work around was to perform the unzip and tar stages seperately
6	rather than through a pipe:
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8	bzip2 -dc /mnt/cdrom/nameofmytarball.tbz2 > nameofmytarball.tar
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10	tar -xvf nameofmytarball.tar
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12	Hope this helps.