On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 09:12:08PM -0000, Yan Seiner wrote:
> [...]
> I need more memory or swap to run apt-get. But to run swap over nfs I
> need nbd-server from the apt repository, so that means I have to run
> apt-get... But I need nbd-server to set up swap over nfs.... You get
> the idea....
>
> So, how have others overcome this? How do you run apt-get?
There is a workaround:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/myswap.img bs=1k count=128M
$ mkswap /tmp/swap.img
$ losetup /dev/loop0 /tmp/swap.img
$ swapon /dev/loop0
Enjoy apt-get! ;)
Regards,
Adriano
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