Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> 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.

Really?  How'd you manage to suck up that much RAM?  Most of my custom
kernels only allocate around 4MB, and they're usually smaller than the
GENERIC kernels....are you using the RaidFrame driver in -current or
something?  I hear it's supposed to be a little big.

Later.

Colin