I've tried to restore an disk image to a low memory “client” PC (32 Mb RAM, 3Gb HDD, 300 MHz CPU) using drbl life (1.0.0-9) on “server”, but didn't succeed because of “kernel panic out of memory” crash on client few minutes after the network boot.
As I understood the “kernel panic” was provoked by insufficient RAM space on client (if i'm wrong please correct). The question is: is it possible to use swap space on the client PC and how to do it? (or more concretely, the disk image I've tried to restore consists of 4 partitions: FAT16 (Win98), Ext2 (DSL), swap, FAT16 (data), is it possible to restore 3 partitions (Win98, DSL, data) using swap and how in this case to configure drbl on server and network boot clonezilla on client?)
Thank you in advance,
Ivan
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It's possible, however you might have to have another disk to make it. Here my idea is:
1. Have an USB flash drive or hard drive, make a partition with ID as "swap", i.e. 82, and use mkswap to format it as linux swap partition.
2. In the boot parameters of clonezilla live, remove "noswap".
Then during booting, Clonezilla live might use the swap partition.
Alternatively, I suggest that you can swap the disk to another machine with larger RAM. Maybe it's easier.
Steven.
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Hello.
I've tried to restore an disk image to a low memory “client” PC (32 Mb RAM, 3Gb HDD, 300 MHz CPU) using drbl life (1.0.0-9) on “server”, but didn't succeed because of “kernel panic out of memory” crash on client few minutes after the network boot.
As I understood the “kernel panic” was provoked by insufficient RAM space on client (if i'm wrong please correct). The question is: is it possible to use swap space on the client PC and how to do it? (or more concretely, the disk image I've tried to restore consists of 4 partitions: FAT16 (Win98), Ext2 (DSL), swap, FAT16 (data), is it possible to restore 3 partitions (Win98, DSL, data) using swap and how in this case to configure drbl on server and network boot clonezilla on client?)
Thank you in advance,
Ivan
It's possible, however you might have to have another disk to make it. Here my idea is:
1. Have an USB flash drive or hard drive, make a partition with ID as "swap", i.e. 82, and use mkswap to format it as linux swap partition.
2. In the boot parameters of clonezilla live, remove "noswap".
Then during booting, Clonezilla live might use the swap partition.
Alternatively, I suggest that you can swap the disk to another machine with larger RAM. Maybe it's easier.
Steven.