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Re: netbsd on a very weak machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Tue Feb 15 11:20:13 2000
To: Bharath Kumar Krishnan <bharath@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
From: nathanw@MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Date: 15 Feb 2000 11:18:02 -0500
In-Reply-To: Bharath Kumar Krishnan's message of "Tue, 15 Feb 2000 11:00:12 -0500 (EST)"
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<daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> (Bharath Kumar Krishnan) writes:
> 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.
Where is that, exactly? What's the last thing it says?
> Can someone tell me whether sync and reboot is the next step after I
> extract the *.tgz packages?
That's a reasonable thing to do. Somewhere in there you want to edit
/etc/rc.conf, too.
- Nathan
