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> Hello guys
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> I didn`t get far with the netbsd 1.5 installation on my old notebook. The machine has only 4 megs of ram and 170MB HD. No cdrom or nic avaliable.
> The boot floppy image "boot-tiny" is the only one bootable, the others run out of memory ( I tried it).
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> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-archive/NetBSD-1.5/i386/installation/floppy/
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> Now I cannot find slattach program after loading the bootdisk into RAM. Where did the developers from the good old days put it?  It should be shipped with the floppy, shouldn`t it? Without slattach, I have no idea how to setup a nullmodem connection between my main machine and the notebook.

no idea. never did this way.

i can compile it statically for you, anyway i don't know if it's supported 
by kernel.

BTW partition disk and configure swap before anything else

BTW2 - doing through floppies will be the fastest way i think. read my 
posts before how to do it quickly