On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:18:12PM +1200, Cavanaugh Family wrote:
> A couple of questions:
> 
> 1) This might be a stupid question, but... Is the i386 port of NetBSD is 
> the one for Intels and AMDs etc?

Yes

> 
> 2) Before I buy a new computer to install and use BSD on properly I am 
> playing around with it  so that I might be more familiar with it before I 
> use it properly. So I have installed it on a compaq 486 with 12megs of ram 
> and 340 megs of HDD. According to the install sheet I have, this is enough, 
> but after the install, it wont boot up from the HDD. It gets to the point 
> :"Biomask ... ... tty ... " every time and freezes, is this because of not 
> enough memory or is it some deep and annoying conflict?

Maybe it doesn't have enouth memory. You installed the GENERIC kernel, rigth ?
You may want to try GENERIC_SMALL or GENERIC_TINY.
I think you can do this from sysinst with the menu "install additionnal sets".
If it's not possible this way just extract the .tgz by hand.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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