On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:40:16PM +0100, Gavan Fantom wrote:
> I have a really old 486 machine which has (I think) 4 megs of RAM. I'd
> like to get NetBSD 1.4.2 running on it, but the install discs don't get
> very far.
> 
> The standard boot discs (boot1.fs + boot2.fs) load a kernel and then
> reboot, and boot-small.fs reboots immediately after reading a small amount
> of data (probably only the boot sector?) from the disc.
> 
> Which floppy image is recommended for booting on low-memory machines?
> Should it still be possible, or should I consider installing NetBSD 1.2?

Should be possible. fvdl has successfully installed 1.5_ALPHA2 on a 4M machine.
> 
> Is there a way of finding out more detailed information about what is
> happening to cause a reboot?

Bad floppy ? corrupted disk image ? hardware problems ?

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