On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 12:33:05PM -0800, Ian Main wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 07:29:36PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 09:00:21PM -0500, Allover Stripes wrote: > > > * Will it run in 8 megs of RAM? > > > > Make sure you have a swap partition if you want to do something useful > > (beside looking at the prompt and whispering *ah, it runs* :) > > I think it's worth mentioning that you need to edit boot/servers.boot script > (in your hurd partition.. you can do that from in linux) to setup the swap.. > It took me a fair while to figure this out ;-) > > It should be mentioned in the install docs too me thinks.
native-install says: echo If you have a swap partition, please edit /boot/servers.boot to echo use it. after installation completes. and the easy guide has something, too, I think. > I was having unhandled page faults (unrecoverable) when I didn't have a swap > partition.. since I set that up it seems to be working a bit better, but my > translators keep dying on me now.. gonna try reinstalling again ;-) Great to hear that it is now working more reliable! Which translator is dying on you? exec or file system? Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
