"... not enough memory to load all data" during HTTP installation of SUSE on Dell Lat CPIa

J.N. SUsE Lists

26 Jul 2004 26 Jul '04

13:27

( 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.) 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... Hopefully, that's clearer than it sounds... Any help is appreciated. Thanks, -- J.

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J.N. SUsE Lists

30 Jul 30 Jul

12:48

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No one has any hints? Did I not provide the right information? -- J. J.N. SUsE Lists wrote:

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( 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.)

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...

Hopefully, that's clearer than it sounds...

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks, -- J.

James Ogley

13:00

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No one has any hints? Did I not provide the right information?

Sorry, didn't see your original email... Assuming that /dev/hda1 is your swap partition, and there's nothing physically wrong with the drive... Drop to a console (Alt+F2) mkswap /dev/hda1 swapon /dev/hda1 Should do the trick -- James Ogley, Webmaster, usr local bin & Planet SuSE james@rubberturnip.org.uk www.rubberturnip.org.uk Updated GNOME packages for SUSE LINUX: www.usr-local-bin.org Latest SUSE News and Blogs: www.planetsuse.org

Carlos E. R.

31 Jul 31 Jul

14:00

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

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

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( 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?

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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

J.N. SUsE Lists

23:53

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I think that I am using the manual install (at least I'm choosing manual install)... But what are you referring to when you mention "suse books" ? I did look online for articles on the details of installing SuSE ( and in some cases, all Linux ) -- in order to try to solve the problem myself... but did not find "the suse books" ... Thanks! --J. Carlos E. R. wrote:

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

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( 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".

Carlos E. R.

1 Aug 1 Aug

00:52

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The Saturday 2004-07-31 at 18:53 -0500, J.N. SUsE Lists wrote:

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I think that I am using the manual install (at least I'm choosing manual install)... But what are you referring to when you mention "suse books" ?

In paper - or, after installing suse, as a pdf or html formats (it's an rpm). The manuals give detailed instructions for installation, but I'm unsure if you can see them "electronically" before installing the system. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

James Knott

13:00

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Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Saturday 2004-07-31 at 18:53 -0500, J.N. SUsE Lists wrote:

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I think that I am using the manual install (at least I'm choosing manual install)... But what are you referring to when you mention "suse books" ?

In paper - or, after installing suse, as a pdf or html formats (it's an rpm). The manuals give detailed instructions for installation, but I'm unsure if you can see them "electronically" before installing the system.

"Please read the on-line documentation, prior to installation." ;-)

Carlos E. R.

23:38

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The Sunday 2004-08-01 at 09:00 -0400, James Knott wrote:

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But what are you referring to when you mention "suse books" ?

In paper - or, after installing suse, as a pdf or html formats (it's an rpm). The manuals give detailed instructions for installation, but I'm unsure if you can see them "electronically" before installing the system.

"Please read the on-line documentation, prior to installation." ;-)

:-) Ah, yes... provided you do have a working computer with internet connection. But in any case, the admin book is not browsable on the suse web page, as far as I know: you have to install the rpm. Of course, paper is more confortable for reading. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

Patrick Shanahan

01:31

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* J.N. SUsE Lists [07-31-04 18:54]:

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I think that I am using the manual install (at least I'm choosing manual install)... But what are you referring to when you mention "suse books" ?

The ones you received with the package you purchased. You *did* buy the package ?? Please, trim your quotes. http://learn.to/quote (German and English) -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos

J.N. SUsE Lists

23:18

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Not yet. First I need to make sure that suse will work on all the computers I have at home... I'm currently trapped into m$ "solutions" ... working on recovering, however, haven't had all the luck I had hoped with Linux. Suse installed great on the latest Dell machine, but died on my laptop and the 'main' computer that I use with all the hardware attached to it. Why assume that I bought the package? The subject says HTTP (as opposed to FTP) installation. Why would I choose that if I had the CDs? ( Not trying to be difficult, my questions are sincere: trying to determine if I failed to understand something about suse. ) Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* J.N. SUsE Lists [07-31-04 18:54]:

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But what are you referring to when you mention "suse books" ?

The ones you received with the package you purchased. You *did* buy the package ??

Leendert Meyer

01:07

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On Monday 26 July 2004 15:27, J.N. SUsE Lists wrote:

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( 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."

Install the package autoyast2, and have a look at: /usr/share/doc/packages/autoyast2/html/info_file_format.html Right before the table there's an alinea saying the key=value pairs can also be used at the boot prompt. You probably need the AddSwap key. I'm not sure if the swap partition needs preparation. Try without, and if that fails, try with. Cheers, Leen

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