Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA05090; Wed, 20 Dec 95 08:31:36 EST Received: from colossus.cse.psu.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA06994; Wed, 20 Dec 95 08:31:34 EST Received: by colossus.cse.psu.edu id <78594>; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 08:21:34 -0500 Received: from mail.infinet.com ([198.30.154.1]) by colossus.cse.psu.edu with SMTP id <78591>; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 08:21:18 -0500 Received: from DARC by mail.infinet.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #9) id m0tSONN-000JhHC; Wed, 20 Dec 95 08:16 EST Message-Id: Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Luther Huffman, Jr." To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 13:19:31 -0500 Subject: Re: Can't mk 9pc Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Sender: owner-9fans@cse.psu.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu On 20 Dec 95 at 7:27, Nigel Roles wisely noted: > 16Mb is not enough on it's own, since 8l can take 14Mb (well it is > optimised for a well endowed shared compute server). You would need > 24Mb to link without swapping. The "Out of memory" message is the > result of not having a swap partition selected, so check that out. Hmmm. I know that if I formatted my hard disk with disk/prep -a that I would have a default swap partition. Somebody please tell me that the standard CD-ROM installation procedure created the swap partition for me and all I have to do is give it a name for the "swap" command. If someone can't tell me this, please lie to me.