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From: mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc:
Subject: Re: install/52845: no console device on 486 DX4-S 100 Mhz
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 10:14:39 -0000 (UTC)
dimitrisz%gmail.com@localhost writes:
>486 DX4 100 Mhz, 64MB RAM, ISA/Vesa Local Bus system, Vesa Local Bus Controller + Graphics card, Sond Blaster 16 ISA - IDE controller for CDROM (tertiary master), 3 Fixed disk devices (IDE to SD - 8GB primary master, 2 GB solid state primary slave, 2 GB solid state secondary master), 2 floppy 1.44 (A being USB-floppy emulator)
The INSTALL kernel (based on GENERIC) doesn't support pre-PCI graphics cards.
You may try to use the INSTALL_FLOPPY kernel and later run the GENERIC2 kernel
which still have support for older hardware.
In the end you probably want to build a custom kernel to reduce memory
footprint to a minimum, but INSTALL_FLOPPY should get you going.
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