Subject: Re: Installing on an IIsi... can't start shell.
To: Henry Ware <hware@stat.cs.wvu.edu>
From: The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood] <davagatw@mars.utm.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/29/1996 18:29:41
On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, Henry Ware wrote:

I don't have any idea if anybody's answered this yet, but....

> I am attempting to install on a IIsi.  The machine has 9M RAM, NetBSD
> fstab is set to mount /dev/sd1a with swap on sd1b (swap is 8 megs at

If your problem isn't caused by swap size, It likely will case problems
later.  Minimum to be fairly safe is twice your memory, and never any less
than 20 megs.  Swap size less than memory could easily be the cause of the
problem.

Later,

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