On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, tseeger wrote:
> I am trying to install 1.5 on a 486 laptop equipped with 4MB RAM. I am
> dependent on fetching the distribution sets from a msdos partition. Reading
> small files (for e.g. autoconf.bat) from that partition is O.K. ls(1) even
> works. While accessing larger files (etc.tgz is enough) the hdd led is lit
> for 2 seconds and then the system stalls. Sometimes the console is working
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Maybe you're running out of memory -- have you tried enabling swap before
continuing with the installation?

Jared