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Re: netbsd on a very weak machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Mon Feb 14 20:11:19 2000
To: Bharath Kumar Krishnan <bharath@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
From: nathanw@MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Date: 14 Feb 2000 20:11:10 -0500
In-Reply-To: Bharath Kumar Krishnan's message of "Mon, 14 Feb 2000 19:59:50 -0500 (EST)"
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Bharath Kumar Krishnan <bharath@MIT.EDU> writes:
> I plan to install netbsd-athena on a 386 with 4Mb of ram. I am not able to
> use the default boot image from the locker.
> Going through the docs online, I find that I will have to do some work to
> get this to work.
I'm afraid that the install won't work in 4 megs; in fact,
netbsd-athena itself probably won't work in that little space. AFS is
a major culprit, and the default kitchen-sink kernel we install takes
nearly 2M by itself.
You should look at the boot-tiny distribution for the i386 on
ftp.netbsd.org and try to get that installed; once you can get that
going, then you can look at installing the parts of Athena that will
fit in that amount of space.
- Nathan
