On Saturday 13 September 2008 10:32:20 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > I have a very small virtual server (just 64MB RAM, no swap) where I'm > trying to install Gentoo. It fails to emerge binutils due to out of > memory. According to the handbook I need 64MB RAM and 256MB swap as a > bare minimum so this result is not entirely unexpected. > > Given that I can't add a swapfile (simply not possible in this virtual > server) is the only option more RAM? If yes, then what is the minimum? > Are there ways to reduce the amount of memory used by emerge? > > Cheers, > Hilco
Do you have another more powerful gentoo machine available where you can build the packages there and install just binaries on the virtual server? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
