Re: [SLE] "... not enough memory to load all data" during HTTP installation of SUSE on Dell Lat CPIa

From: Carlos E. R. (robin1.listas_at_tiscali.es)
Date: 07/31/04

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    The Monday 2004-07-26 at 08:27 -0500, J.N. SUsE Lists wrote:

    > ( 6G drive, 258M-500M swap partition(s) )
    >
    > "There is not enough memory to load all data; To continue, activate some swap
    > space."
    >
    > ( It appears to recognize the 258M swap space, because then it has me choose
    > hda1 )
    >
    > And then: "Error activating swap space."

    >
    > I get the message above when trying to install SuSE 9.1 on a hard drive with a
    > single partition (Linux Swap) on it, or with 2 swap partitions on the drive,
    > with one of them formatted and the other not formatted -- I was trying to
    > figure out how to get the install program to sucessfully . Partitions and
    > formatting done by System Commander. (Because I can boot into it, partition,
    > and format without installing an OS.)

    Tried the rescue selection on the dvd?
     
    > I've got 128M of RAM and 256K of cache. Can't seem to get far enough in the
    > install to be able to access fdisk / cfdisk, and wouldn't really be sure how
    > to do it, anyway...

    Perhaps choosing the manual install - more about that on the suse books -
    because it starts in text mode and uses less memory. At some point,
    ctrl-alt-F1..6 works (or should), and you get a console where you could
    initialise your HD (adding a swap partition).

    If that doesn't work, try with the install CD of SuSE 7.1, for example,
    that uses much less memory. Get far enough to initialise the swap (fdisk
    and mkswap) partition, then exit, and try again with SuSE 9.1

    It would help to see the exact error message of "swapon". 

    -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson
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