You have cause and effect reversed. md0a fills because sysinst dumps
core.

.pm

David W Talmage <talmage@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> writes:

> [I couldn't find the answer in the port-i386 archives.  My local NetBSD guru 
> didn't know the answer, either.]
> 
> I'm trying to upgrade my laptop to 1.3I.  I'm using my own INSTALL kernel 
> based on INSTALL_SMALL.  I removed the SCSI support and added PCMCIA ethernet 
> support.  It's pretty small, yet I can't get sysinstall to update.  sysinstall 
> complains that there isn't enough space in /dev/md0a and leaves a little 
> sysintall.core turd.
> 
> Would someone please tell me how to make the RAM disk bigger?  I'll settle for 
> a pointer to the right FM with an example.