debian live installer failed to fork - cannot allocate memory

[Elixer]

Anyone have a clue on what this means ? When I launch thedebian live installer, it says " failed to fork - cannot allocate memory"

I used this image, http://hammurabi.acc.umu.se/cdimage...hdd/debian-live-6.0.0-amd64-gnome-desktop.img

Installed it to a USB device, booted with it... then I can't install, since that error message.

I have 8GB memory, and this is 64bit, so unsure what it is talking about.

Ideas?

 

[lxskllr]

Is that a liveCD? If so, I'd try using one of the official Debian install methods instead. Debian liveCDs strike me as being a kind of hacked together project, and not a primary concern. The net install method works well if you have a good connection. Otherwise, I'd use one of the full CDs linked to from the primary site.

 

[Elixer]

Is that a liveCD? If so, I'd try using one of the official Debian install methods instead. Debian liveCDs strike me as being a kind of hacked together project, and not a primary concern. The net install method works well if you have a good connection. Otherwise, I'd use one of the full CDs linked to from the primary site.

Yeah, it is a liveCD. My plan was to install linux onto a USB flash drive, so I can do tests that way, and the liveCD seems like it should be able to do it, but the installer from the liveCD fails with that odd error message.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Do you have a swap partition on the USB drive?

 

[Elixer]

Yeah, made a 1GB partition.

 

[lxskllr]

I think I'd try the net install, and try installing that to the flash drive. You only need a very small image to start, and you download the rest.