Do you have any swap space allocated?

		David/absolute

    "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." - Oscar Wilde

On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Grant Stockly wrote:

> I've installed NetBSD on a computer with 5MB of ram and it does fine until
> it gets to 'updating motd...'.  Then it just sits there accessing the hard
> drive for hours.  I went to bed and let it do that for 8 hours.  When I
> woke up, it was still doing it.
> 
> I pulled the drive and put it in a computer with 8MB of ram and it started
> up fine.  The kernel says it has 900k free out of the 4096 + 640k the
> computer has.
> 
> I've installed OpenBSD and NetBSD on macintoshes that have had 200k ram
> free and they boot and operate fine.
> 
> Is there a way to fix NetBSD to work right?
> 
> 
> Grant
>