Frodo Baggins wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > kmself@ix.netcom.com scripsit: > >On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 02:15:49PM +0200, Jens Luedicke wrote: > >> Hi there ... > >> > >> ...apt-get fetched all the lists but when it was reading/parsing > >> the lists, I got an error message: > >> > >> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room! > >> ... > > > >Looks suspiciously as if you're out of memory. Not unlikely when trying > >to install a mess of packages. What's your memory situation look like? > >Swap? > > It's not exactly the same thing, but I'd like to give you a warn (I > know, I know, I sould signal it as a bug... I'll do). In the In the > "Installing Debian/Linux 2.1 for Intel x86" document they say, about > partitioning (section 4.2. Planing the use of the System"): > > [...] Notably, the Debian '/var' partition contains a lot of state > information. [...], you should usually allocate at least 50Mb for > /var. > > Well, I did it. I even allocated 128Mb, just to be on the sure > side. But during istallation it crashed. Infact, apt uses a > subdirectory of /var to put packages dowloaded but not yet installed > and at installation time you need a lot of packages. > > Then it seems to me that there are only two alternatives: > > make an huge /var partition, knowing that there will be a lot of > unused space after your installation is complete, or > > don't make a partition neither of /var nor /usr, make a huge / > partition and let the system use the space as it needs.
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