Subject: Re: uVax3100model10 install
To: Erno Palonheimo <esp@cc.hut.fi>
From: Michael Kukat <michael@unixiron.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/18/2001 03:07:31
Hi !

On 18 Mar 2001, Erno Palonheimo wrote:
> > Looks like there's only 4Mb of RAM in this thing.
> > Is that not enough to do anything in?
>
> Install manually.  Among first things you could mount a swap file over
> NFS, or something.  Not very fast, but it's feasible.

Hard things to do for a beginner, but the hints: After sysinst crashed, do
"disklabel -i" manually to create a swap partition on your disk, activate this
with swapctl (i hope it is on the sysinst disk, never used sysinst on a VAX :),
and then just restart sysinst.
But i think a VAX with just 4 Megs RAM doesn't make much sense with the GENERIC
kernel. And with those 4 Megs, it might take weeks to build a better kernel for
this machine... hard task :)

...Michael

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