Hmm - I've run NetBSD on an i386 with 4MB so it _should_ be OK.
	Could you edit /etc/rc and add 'echo' statements before each
	line the in 'updating motd' block, and maybe a 'swapctl -l' also
	to determine on which line it fails.	

		David/absolute

 -=-  "I know its not the right thing, and I know its not the good thing"  -=-

On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Grant Stockly wrote:

> >	Do you have any swap space allocated?
> >
> >		David/absolute
> 
> I have 16MB.
> 
> >    "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." - Oscar Wilde
> >
> >On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Grant Stockly wrote:
> >
> >> I've installed NetBSD on a computer with 5MB of ram and it does fine until
> >> it gets to 'updating motd...'.  Then it just sits there accessing the hard
> >> drive for hours.  I went to bed and let it do that for 8 hours.  When I
> >> woke up, it was still doing it.
> >>
> >> I pulled the drive and put it in a computer with 8MB of ram and it started
> >> up fine.  The kernel says it has 900k free out of the 4096 + 640k the
> >> computer has.
> >>
> >> I've installed OpenBSD and NetBSD on macintoshes that have had 200k ram
> >> free and they boot and operate fine.
> >>
> >> Is there a way to fix NetBSD to work right?
> >>
> >>
> >> Grant
> >>
>