I droped the system down to 10megs and tried the install again,and it still
aborts the same way.

----- Original Message -----
From: phlatlyn <phlatlyn@pacbell.net>
To: Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 5:32 AM
Subject: Re: Install fails on MVII


> I will try dropping my system down to 8 megs and see what happens
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
> To: phlatlyn <phlatlyn@pacbell.net>
> Cc: <port-vax@netbsd.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 2:40 AM
> Subject: Re: Install fails on MVII
>
>
> > On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, phlatlyn wrote:
> >
> > > there is a sysinst.core
> > >
> > > I delete it and executed sysinst and it did the same thing. I just
> noticed
> > > that the system was not echoing my keystrokes either. ~Dont know if
> thats
> > > signifigant.
> >
> > Hmm.  I can't replicate the problem on my MicroVAX II's here.  I'm
> > thinking there may be some weird issue with it being a 16Meg system, but
I
> > don't have the RAM to check that on my systems.  Just voodoo speculation
> > there though.  Does anyone else on the list run a 16Meg MicroVAX II, and
> > have you installed with sysinst successfully?
> >
> > If you've not done so, you may want to fully power-cycle the system
before
> > proceeding with the NetBSD/vax install.  In the past I've noticed that
> > warm restarts on my VAXstation 3100's sometime result in bad behavior.
> > I've never seen those types of problems on a MicroVAX II, but who knows.
> >
> > -brian.
> > ---
> > Brian "JARAI" Chase | http://world.std.com/~bdc/ | VAXZilla LIVES!!!
> >
>