Re: slackware probmem... please help!

["Chris Peterson, KG0BP" <chrisp@citilink.com>]

Hi, 

I have 32 mb of ram and no swap partition.  I did solve the problem,
though, although I'm not sure exactly how.  At any rate, it's working.

thanks, 
Chris

On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, marc groeneveld wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Do you have, enough memory? At least 8 Mb RAM  I would say. And a 
> swap partition? At least 16 Mb. Because of memory problems a lot of 
> programs won't be able to function normally.
> 
> Succes,
> 
> Marc.
> 
> > Date:          Sun, 27 Jul 1997 14:06:24 -0500 (CDT)
> > From:          "Chris Peterson, KG0BP" <chrisp@citilink.com>
> > To:            blinux-list@redhat.com
> > Subject:       slackware probmem... please help!
> > Reply-to:      blinux-list@redhat.com
> 
> > I just installed Slackware 3.3 on my system using a dos terminal on
> > /dev/ttyS0.  The instalation went fine until I rebooted the system.  At
> > that point, although I was able to log in as root, I the system would hang
> > when adding a user.  More spacifically, it would hang at the very end of
> > the adduser process when, I think, it whould have returned to bash.
> > Ctrl-c resuccessfully exited adduser, but I can't log in as that user.
> > When it should give me a password prompt, the system hangs.
> > 
> > Also, now when I try to log in as root, I get an error that says ``Unable
> > to change to tty /dev/ttyS0 bad file number''.  Having little practical
> > experical experience with unix and no experience with linux, what should I
> > do now?
> > 
> > thanks in advance,
> > Chris
> > 
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