>>>>> On Thu, 28 May 1998 22:54:38 +0100 (BST), Chris Evans
>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Chris> On 28 May 1998, Brian Gorka wrote:
Chris> The memory requirements of the installer perhaps need
Chris> reviewing?
>>
>> I can verify this on my toshiba 1900 8M laptop. Disk thrashing out
>> the wazoo...
Chris> I'm glad it's not just me inventing problems. Did the install
Chris> effectively stop by over-vigourous thrashing? Or did you manage
Chris> to get somewhere? Of course, if the damn thing would only get
Chris> as far as "swapon" stage.
Chris> I also saw the kernel message "bdflush() called, going back to
Chris> sleep" or similar. Maybe buffers are building up and exhausting
Chris> memory this way because of some dubious redhat install kernel
Chris> patch?
I got this bdflush() message on a 128M machine today. I did not use
the mem=128M line, so I probably had 64 megs visible to linux at the
time.
rob
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