Dear Brave Debian Users:
With a lowmem installation [4 meg.s RAM], 2 MB temporary
partition [ Type 81], 16 MB Swap Partition [Type 82], and the rest of my
HD for Linux; I can't install.
After booting from lowmem.bin, partitioning my disk,
initializing swap, copying root.bin over, then exiting it; I see a flash
along the bottom of the screen:
swap on failed
device busy or in use.
Then I get taken into the menu driven installation program. There I
cannont initialize or activate the swap partition; 'device busy or in
use', yet it is alwayst telling me that that is what needs to be done
next. But as long as I don't try to make a boot floppy, I can finish
installing choosing the steps myself; that is, skipping the initialization
and actiation of Swap P..
Then I try to boot from this.
When booting from my new Linux HD, one of the messages I see is:
Activating Swap...
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Mountin local file systems...
not mounted anything
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Starting kerneld, version 2.1.85 (pid 111)
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/etc/rc2.d/S20logoutd: fork: Cannot allocate memory
sh: xmalloc: cannot allocate 8 bytes (0 bytes allocated)
/bin/sh: error in loading shared libraries
libncurses.so.3.4: cannot map zero-fill pages: Cannot allocate memory
/bin/sh: error in loading shared libraries
libc.so.6: cannot map aero-fill pages: Cannot allocate memory
/bin/sh: error in loading shared libraries
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INIT: ID "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes [really bad sign]
/bin/sh: error in loading shared libraries
libncurses.so.3.4: cannot map zero-fill pages: Cannot allocate memory
/bin/sh: error in loading shared libraries
libc.so.6: cannot map aero-fill pages: Cannot allocate memory
/bin/sh: error in loading shared libraries
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[like this forever, Ahhhhh]
Do you know what I can do to get this to work; if you don't mind,
please share it with me. I installed the last version of Debian fine, but
this one is a nother story.
Sincerely,
Jason J. Simas
