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On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 20:19:59 +0100
> Rémi Zara <remi_zara@mac.com> wrote:
>
>> As reported by someone else in November, sysinst did not mount the
>> target disk, so when getting the sets (via ftp), it quickly complained
>> that there was not enough room on disk...
>
> sysinst is just broken in mac68k after a lot of cleanups went in.  (I know,
> it's a lot better than before, but what's the point if it fails? ;)
>
> I complained, reporting all the failures I saw (dunno if it was in this
> list or in a private one; if the later, I'll repost that message here) but
> no fixes have gone in yet :(


In my case (I was at least one person who reported this) the issue was a 
lack of RAM. The machine had only 8Mb. I managed to install with the 
Mac-based installer, and all worked fine.

Then I tuned my VM based on the VM Tuning Guide below in order to kepp the 
kernel from constantly swapping everything out pre-emptively.

http://www.selonen.org/arto/netbsd/vm_tune.html

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