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Re: netbsd on a very weak machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bharath Kumar Krishnan)
Tue Feb 15 11:00:25 2000
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 11:00:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Bharath Kumar Krishnan <bharath@MIT.EDU>
To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
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hi all,
thanks for all the help.
After one sleepless night, I am still stuck.
I succeeded in booting off the boot-tiny.fs image, after many false
starts, succeeded in getting my nic to work, ftp'ed the base kern and etc
packages, and then it just kept running out of swap when trying to 'pax'
the files. I quit sysinst, and did this manually by rebooting and
mounting the harddisk.
I am not sure what I have to do next.
When I try to boot of the netbsd image on the hard disk, it starts to
boot, (though I notice that the IRQ for the nic changes from 10 to 5 when
I boot from hard disk) and then hangs at the same place it hung when I
tried to boot off the netbsd-athena boot image.
Can someone tell me whether sync and reboot is the next step after I
extract the *.tgz packages?
thanks,
-bharath
