Has anyone experienced the following problem? I recently installed Debian (from Stable disks I obtained from debian.org a couple months back) on a Compaq Deskpro 50M EISA box with 8MB RAM and a 340MB drive, 2 LAN cards (SMC ELite 16 and Ultra) and an Orchid Fahrenheit video adapter. This is a 486-50, I believe.
Installation went fine (except that the install menus were as slow as molasses). I only installed the base system - no additional packages.I booted the machine into multi-user mode, logged in as 'root' and left it running for a day or so. Returning to the machine after a couple of days, I saw a screenful of messages like: "Couldn't get a free page....." and finally, at the bottom of the screen: "Out of memory for bash." I Alt-Fkey'ed to other virtual terminals, but couldn't log on. I haven't been able to re-create the problem, but left it on over the week-end. I hope it's still running when I get to work tomorrow. One possible explanation: my EISA config was out of sync with reality, because someone had nicked memory from the machine. I have since run the EISA config utility and fixed it. TIA, Alastair Gregory
