Re: [SETUP] mke2fs and what then?

From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Fri Mar 30 2001 - 12:12:57 CEST


On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 09:47:54PM +0200, Rasmus T. Bjerngaard nicely wrote:
> Hi
> I have succesfully installed muLinux BOOT, ROOT, USR and SRV on a 486 8MB
> HD:700MB labtop. When I try to install TEX, X11 or WKS which run mke2fs I
> get into problems. The setup writes:
>
> Creating /dev/ram3 ramdisk ...
> mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
>
> Then it counts up to 22% and stops. 3 hours later it counted some more
> -- up to 46%. Waiting another 5 hours without anything but an active
> harddrive I gave up.
>

To uncompress an addons (high compression rate) requires RAM and CPU.
Did you enable a swap file in your 700MB?

Michele

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