Hallo, I read this in the archives regarding the Compaq. I"m having the same problem with physical memory. I don"t quite understand how you overcame it.
Can you explain in more detail? Do i copy another program to the floppy..like "9pccd.gz" Does it contain a different swap routine? Do I need a utility program? I tried "swapon" and named a linuxswap portion... didn't help. ........from archives 2005 July...... The major installation problem was that the system was constantly running out of physical memory during the distmount phase. After a bunch of hunting and exploration, it looked like the kernel was only reporting about 3k free pages of free physical memory, with about 16k pages of swap (approx numbers). I managed to get the plan9 partion 'preped' with a swap, so after copying the swap utility from the plan9 boot image (9pccd.gz) to a shared ext2 partition i was able to use it from the plan9 install image (9pcflop.gz) and fire up the swap file so I could sucessfully perform the install. Everything went smoothly with the install after that and I'm now booting plan9 from the harddrive using grub. :) After this experience, I have a feeling that either there's a bug in my comp's mainboard which causes problems with the physical memory calculation or (since I don't know much about the kernel yet) it has a hardcoded max somewhere that is limiting my available memory. Any comments on this problem or suggestions on how to fix it? And finally, I would suggest to the iso maintainers that they put the swap utility in the 9pcflop.gz image and some instructions in the installation/installer to enable the swap file when it's created so others don't have this kind of problem.
