On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:51:41AM +1000, Andrew Janke wrote: > On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > > > There's no indication for memory requirements in the Fai Guide (or I > > > missed it again). > Well from my own experience it would appear that 96MB doesn't seem to be enough. > :( I am paring down the DEFAULT install's packages to see if I can make it > work.... > > I'm attempting an FAI install on a HP Vectra P166 96MB RAM, boot disk works > great (via DHCP) install works great but it seems to randomly hang typically in > the packages install section but sometimes it has made it all the way to > DEFAULT/S01 at which stage it barfs.
Then you get a "VM: killing task" message, too. I found a (simple) workaround (Thomas, this might be worth to go into default FAI?): I created a file hooks/mountdisks.DEFAULT: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/free swapdev=`perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if /^(\/dev\/\S+)\s+none\s+swap/;' /tmp/fai/fstab | head -1` swapon $swapdev /usr/bin/free exit 0 Fortunately, FAI is easily extendable :-) I then found that I was using a "preserve" partition for swap and did not "format" it... thus task_mountdisks didn't activate it... probably that's your problem too? Do you have a line "Enable swap device" after "Calling task_mountdisks"? Cheers, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * * * Merlin cluster admin (http://pandora.aei.mpg.de) Albert-Einstein-Institut (MPI Gravitationsphysik, http://www.aei.mpg.de) Science Park Golm, Am M�hlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233,fax:7298}
