Two general areas of puzzlement related to lowmem debian installation:
After the keyboard config during the installation vi was called
to amend fstab to add /dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0 . All went well and
fstab looked properly modified but then I could not get out of vi and
back to the shell prompt to go on with mkswap and swapon. :q and :wq
could not be used???? esc did not seem to change modes of vi???
What is the proper sequence of vi commands to save the latest changes
and return to the shell prompt??
Having failed at fixing the swap partition problem I went ahead
and installed without a swap partition. Went all the way through the
making of a boot disk and arrived at "no mail" and a # prompt. Various
attempts at using vi to fix fstab and to call mkawap and swapon
resulted in: bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory.
# cat bash resulted in:
:cat:error inloading shared libraries
libc.so.6:failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot
allocate memory
# /sbin/halt resulted in bash:fork:cannot allocate memory and then
automatically called /sbin shutdown:error in loading shared
libraries libc.so.6:cannot map zero-fill pages:cannot allocate
memory.
Has anyone been able to install the lowmem version of debian
linux on a 386 with 4meg ram?? If so, what procedure was used.
Is there no hope of adding a swap partition after installation??
How can I get the man pages before I have linux installed??
Guidance will be appreciated. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
