Subject: Re: Installing NetBSD on a low-memory 486
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
From: Gavan Fantom <gavan@coolfactor.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/03/2000 23:17:08
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Frank van der Linden wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 08:12:20PM +0100, Gavan Fantom wrote:
> > OK. Well the BIOS is reporting 3072K extended memory. Is this something I
> > should be able to tweak somehow, or does that mean I haven't much hope of
> > getting NetBSD onto this box nowadays?
> 
> 3072 is 128k too little.. I have tested this, and it'll run out of memory.
> Try going into the BIOS setup and disable any 'shadow ram' settings.

Right. When you tested this, what happened when it ran out of RAM? Was a
message printed, or did the machine reboot?

-- 
Gillette - the best a man can forget