Re: [Possible Showstopper for pre6] MKE2FS

jleu@doit.wisc.edu
Fri, 15 Aug 1997 16:44:05 -0500

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On Fri, Aug 15, 1997 at 10:49:16PM +0200, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> today I tried to install Linux on a machine for a friend. While I formatted
> the harddisk with mke2fs:
> mke2fs 1.04, 16-May-96 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> the system stalled with the well known message
> "Couldn't get a free page"

I had a similar message while installing on a IBM thinkpad. Right during the
formating of a drive. This was with Slackware 3.3 on a 1GB partion on a 2 GB
disk.

My machine chugged through it (it has 64MB RAM).

-- 
James R. Leu
jleu@doit.wisc.edu

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