Subject: Re: Anyone running on VS2000 w/small memory?
To: Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/24/1998 10:40:10
> 
> I've recently been working with netbooting a pair of VS2000s with only
> 6Megs of RAM and no disk drives.  Does anyone around here run NetBSD/vax
> on such a minimal config? 
> 
Well; I've run on a 2MB MV2, but with a customized kernel.
The generic one will boot on 4MB in single-user anyway.

> I've been having problems with both the standard 1.3A (16 Jan 1998) kernel
> and Ragge's new 1.3E (23 May 1998) kernel. I can get the systems booted up
> to their console login prompt, but almost immediately the machines lock up
> on me.  In some instances I can only get a few characters typed at the
> login prompt before it locks.  In other cases I can log in all the way but
> then relatively quickly things lock up on me.
> 
Do you have swap on the machine?

-- Ragge