> The real problem is the isntall though: I run sysinst, configure
and format
> the disks: when it comes to FTP-ing the distribution I get (to the
default
> /usr/INSTALL)
> pid 14 (sysinst) killed: out of swap
> right after ftp logged in.
>
> this isn't nice. I have 8Mb of physical RAM and I defined about
50M of swap.
> (partition type: NetBSD swap). Maybe sysinst doesn't do a swapon?
or what?

Correct, no swapon occurs normally that I'm aware of.  If you can
get to a shell early enough in the installer you should be able to
manually enable swap though.  Usually I end up installing on a
different box when dealing with low ram situations.

Joshua Coombs