Subject: Using boot-tiny.fs
To: netbsd <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Ian Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/06/2000 06:53:47
     I have a laptop with only 4MB of RAM on it and a
122MB HD.  I have managed to boot the boot-tiny.fs on
it but I am having trouble finishing sysinst.  The
doc's say to use the command swapon but this is not
included as a command when you first boot from floppy.
 Any suggestions on how to proceed?  I was able to
write the inodes and get to the point where it asked
for kern.aa.  Unfortunately it said that it could not
read the floppy I put in so I had to abort.  When I
tried to run the install again I got could not write
to disk when it was going to write the ffs.  I checked
fdisk and it shows the partitions that I have setup. 
I used disklabel and it shows the name I have chosen
for the disk.  This laptop only has a floppy drive and
no PCMCIA slots.  It does have a Parellel Port and
Serial Port.  
   I know this may sound like a waste of time but I
strongly believe that this machine is not obselete and
can be used.

Thanks in advance,
Ian






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