On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 11:08:24PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > 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.
The easy guide (at http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/~mcv21/hurd.html) says: You may make a swap partition too if you wish, or use your Linux one (in which case you need to modify your boot scripts, but I have no idea which ones to change). And that's the end of that :) I would not mind writing text for this if the author is not up to it. > > 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 The ext2fs translator. I tried both ext2.static and plain ext2 (or whatever they are exactly called). As soon as I cd into the dir it dies with a 'translator died' error message and I'm put back to my previous dir. I'm using settrans just like in the easy install doc. Also, is there a /proc translator I should have setup ? I see errors from several programs about no /proc. Thanks, Ian
