Thus spake Matthew N. Dodd
> The machine has but 8 megs of RAN so I'm kind of doubting the ability to
> boot the .gdb kernel.

You don't need to.  When you make a debugging kernel, two files are
created.  Boot the smaller netbsd one but use the netbsd.gdb as the
argument to gdb.

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