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From: Luther Huffman, Jr. lutherh@mai...
Subject: Can't mk 9pc
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 13:19:31 -0500

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.