On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:58:45PM +0100, Gavan Fantom wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> OK. Presumably 1.5_ALPHA2 is a tad bigger than 1.4.2?

Well, that's not sure. Some work has been done on the kernel to remove some
features (e.g. NFSv3).

> 
> > > 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 ?
> 
> I'm 95% sure the floppies are OK.. I dd'd all of them to /dev/null and
> they didn't report any errors. The image I wrote was the image pulled off
> Sunsite UK about a week ago, and the MD5 checked out.
> 
> Hardware problems are entirely likely, but the machine just rebooting with
> no message after loading the kernel isn't really a good indication as to
> where there might be a problem. :-(

Sure. I guess it panics in the earlier stage of the boot, or, worse, it
gets a triple fault (in which case it just reboots).

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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