Subject: Re: NetBSD install problems
To: Nate Godin <nate@graymalkin.res.wpi.net>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/20/1998 09:57:15
On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Nate Godin wrote:

> Hello...
> 	I'm a long-time Linux user trying to get NetBSD running on a
> MacIIci, 8 meg ram, 230 meg HD (10 megs Mac, 210 megs NetBSD, 10 megs
> swap) and a 3Com EtherLink NB ethernet card. The system has 2 problems;
> first, on bootup, when asked for a terminal type, it won't accept vt220,
> or anything else (have to ^C). Then, when trying to go into multi-user
> mode, I get a kernel panic. It happens during network initialisation when
> it does an ifconfig on the loopback device. I get a "Kernel Illegal
> Instruction Trap", panic, then the debug prompt. Went through the stack
> trace with the guys on #netbsd, no luck (none of them were Mac people

8M of ram is pretty tight. Maybe you could get away with that on i386,
but my custom mac68k kernel uses just about that much all by itself.
16-20M would probably be fine, though it may be possible to boot a
stripped down kernel with only 8M.