On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 03:36:51PM -0500, Roland McGrath 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 ;-) > > You can also use `swapon' at runtime. But you do need a $(default-pager) > line (though no device on it). > > > It should be mentioned in the install docs too me thinks. > > > > 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 ;-) > > Hmm. You do need a default pager, even if you have no swap.
Oh, a default swapper eh :) How would one set that up ? Can we document all this stuff somewhere ? Ian
