Subject: Re: NetBSD 2 on Sparcstation 1+
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Chris Laverdure <dashevil@sympatico.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 09/27/2004 13:01:42
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 12:29, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 01:19:19AM -0400, Chris Laverdure wrote:
> > A quick google showed that the guy who told me my kernel may simply be
> > too big to fit in memory because the kernel has to be able to fit
> > entirely in the first SIMM was correct -- that is my problem. Apparenlty
> > I need a 3MB or smaller kernel.
> 
> I proposed a kernel config file for such boxes.
> See
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc/2004/03/28/0000.html

I just took the INSTALL kernel (as it is made to fit on a floppy), took
out the stuff that didn't involve my sparc, and added stuff I wanted to
it and copied it over GENERIC. Works for me. It's about 1.5MB right now.