on 3/4/04 9:13 PM, Frederick Bruckman at fredb@immanent.net wrote:

>> While sysinst is documented to work with 6 MB of memory, and the
>> machine has 8MB, the installation would crash with gzip running out of
>> memory when installing sets.  The solution was to escape to the shell
>> and swapon manually.  I guess that sysinst should do that automa-
>> tically, or at least the procedure should be documented.
> 
> That sounds like a good idea, updating the documentation. The swap
> thing can't work unless you already have swap partition configured,
> so that sounds difficult to automate. Please file a problem report.

I remember having the same problem on MacII (8 mb), I wrote to this list and
reported the "swapon" trick. One has to try to isntalla first time so the
disk is partitioned and then retry a second time when the swap is already
there.

-R