On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 18:43:13 +0100 (CET)
Michael Kukat <michael@bsdfans.org> wrote:

> Hi !
> 
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Marek wrote:
> > I wonder if anyone has installed NetBSD 1.6 on a i386 with no math
> > coprocessor and 4 megs of ram ?
> 
> Yep. How about an ols Victor 386SX-16? Or a 386SX16-Laptop?
> 
> > I have made boot1 and boot2. When i insert them it goes through some
> > numbers and hangs at disk 2. Still waiting maybe it takes a while. Any
> > pointers would be appreciated.
> 
> The boot disks are just too large for 4 megs. I used the 1.5.2 bootdisks or so,
> and installed it manually.

boot-tiny.fs will work.

> But don't expect too much. It is nice to have NetBSD on such a machine, but ssh
> to some host needs about 5 minutes until it asks for the passphrase (protocol
> 2). If you don't need all the niftiy features of a modern OS like NetBSD,
> consider installing Minix or a very old version of NetBSD.

I installed an 1.6 on such machine. ssh does not need 5 minutes. IIRC it
takes around 2-3. What needs 5 minutes is the system to boot up completely.

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
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