On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Erich Rast wrote:

> Thanks for your answers!
> 
> I just forgot to say that I *have* 10megs of swap space on the root
> partition - ok, not much, but should be enough to compile 200 lines of
> code!!!!??? Also the gunzip problem is a bit more weird: it *sometimes*

	Swap space and free space on the root partition are totally
	different things - under NetBSD swap space has to be a separate
	partition. If you have no swap partition and only 5mb or ram you
	are liable to run into unpredictable memory problems...

> unpacks a file, but most of the time it does not unpack the very same file.
> Also, when I do tar -xf foo.tar and foo.tar is big enough, it sometimes
> forgets whole files, another time unpacks everything well. (No, I didn't
> download the files in binary mode...)
> 
> I'm now quite sure that this problem must have something to do with my zip
> drive (works well on the Mac). As it never messes up any binaries when
> executing them from the zip, read access should be ok. I've formatted the
> zip with APS2.7.3 and the following in MKF:
> 
>         Sector          512
>         Sectors/Track   40
>         Tracks/Cylinder 512
>         Numbers/Cyl     2046
>         FileSys/Size    145230
> 
> I originally used it as root slice 0 and then mounted it on my hard disk,
> which now is root. BTW, on boot it says could not mode sense (4) blabla,
> using fictitious geometry - what does that mean?
> 
> Can anyone tell me what's going wrong?
> 
> Greetings,
>                 Erich.
> 
> >>I'm another new NetBSD user. I've installed NetBSD1.2 current on a Mac
> >>IIci 5meg with
> >>40meg hd and mounting a 100meg zip while booting (i had to force fstab
> >>manually to get it mounted). Everything works well exept gcc, it crashes
> >>most of the time complaining:
> >> cc1 got fatal signal 4
> >>or signal 11. It doesn't even work on small programms like tinyirc (it
> >>did work dt) I've linked the include dir to the zip drive and gcc, cc1
> >>etc to / from the zip. Is this the reason?
> >
> >how much swap space do you have? if you have none, that 5 meg memory
> >blockage is a pretty big set back in accomplishing anything, especially
> >compiling. :\
> 
> 


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