Re: Make filesystem problem

[Mark Semans <mark_semans earthlink net>]

After I sent the message, I tried just installing on the IDE drive. 
Also had a Couldn't get free page error...

I did download the img you suggested.

It still gave me 4 page errors, but it recovered and finished the
filesystem make..

Thanks

Mark Semans

Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> 
> Could you try using the following boot image and let us (the list) know if
> it fixes the problem:
> 
> ftp.redhat.com/pub/spt/smooge/4.2-152x/boot.img
> 
> I am thinking that you are running out of memory for some reason on the
> install, and it may be due to the fact that the 1520 is a module (this is
> a guess).
> 
> On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Mark Semans wrote:
> 
> > I've been trying to install on my:
> >       486/100 w/8MB
> >       2 drives 540MB IDE, 630MB SCSI w/aha152x
> >
> > I have the SCSI drive partioned as 20M /tmp and balance as /home
> >
> > The install program mke2fs mke2fs /tmp/hda2 which works fine
> > BUT when it does /tmp/sda2 partion I get the following error on the
> > virtual console:
> >
> > <4>Couldn't get a free page....
> >
> > and the system hangs.  This drive worked fine on Win95.
> > I have 25164k of swap defined and added
> >
> > Help!  Been struggling for awhile..
> >
> > Mark Semans
> >
> >
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