On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 03:13:09PM +1030, Tim Peters wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been trying to install NetBSD 1.4.1 on an old otherwise
> unused 386, to have a look at it. The machine has 8M of ram, and
> two hard disks, the second of which has an msdos filesystem and
> {base,etc,kern}.tgz. I'm using the 1.2M boot-tiny.fs boot image.
> 
> The install procedure seems to go fine until it starts to
> uncompress the kern.tgz file, after which the system freezes.
> 
> Thinking this was perhaps due to a shortage of memory, I have
> tried installing the files from the shell instead of from
> sysinst, and used "swapctl -a /dev/wd0b" to add swap space before
> uncompressing. This didn't work; still when uncompressing the
> tgz's, it freezes after one or two files.

How many swap do you have ?

> 
> I can *list* the packages fine, so I know they're ok.
> 
> The only other clue that might be relevant is that after booting
> I get a few messages of the form: "warning: stray interrupt 7",
> and then "Logging stopped.".
> 
> So, can anyone offer some advice for these problems? Otherwise I
> might have to reinstall Linux on the machine :-)

Don't you have error messages from the kernel (you may want to use
tar xf instead of xvf to see error messages) ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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