Re: [Morphix-user] problem with isomaker (maybe)

[Brendan M. S. <me...@ba...>]

Hi Giulio,

On 2/24/06, G1ul10  wrote:
> Hi Brendan,
> I want to shortly report on my expirience with the M-M.
>
> It is definitely a good idea! Sadly, it did not work for me. I chose
> as option to rebuild the base mod. When it started to extract the
> main .mod I've get a lot of cp Input/Output error. Investigation
> revealed the obvious reson: no room on /var/tmp/. Apparently my 250MB
> of memory + 250 MB swap space are not enough to use the M-M (before
> someone reply that I have to expand/upgrade my memory let me clarify
> that I'm using a several years old Pentium III for this kind of game,
> and at those times 250MB of memory were enough for every man).
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>
> Obvious solution: add more swap. Sure. But this strongly reduce the
> attractiveness of M-M guide (dummies are not supposed to know how to
> add new swaps). If i can dare to give a suggestion... wouldn't be much
> better to use the hard drive partition you are already using to mk the
> final iso also in the intermediate steps, like the extraction of
> main .mod ? It is much more likely for the average user to have 800MB of
> spare space on disk than in memory!
Sounds like a good idea, I should have used the   mmaker option:-
            -t:     use this temp directory instead of making a new one

Thanks for the feedback, something to add to the next version of
morphing-morphix.

Regards,
Brendan

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