Subject: Re: Installing NetBSD on a low-memory 486
To: Gavan Fantom <gavan@coolfactor.org>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/03/2000 21:29:40
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 08:12:20PM +0100, Gavan Fantom wrote:
> OK. Well the BIOS is reporting 3072K extended memory. Is this something I
> should be able to tweak somehow, or does that mean I haven't much hope of
> getting NetBSD onto this box nowadays?

3072 is 128k too little.. I have tested this, and it'll run out of memory.
Try going into the BIOS setup and disable any 'shadow ram' settings.

If I get the time, I might see if I can pull some tricks (within
the existing framework) to save some more memory.

- Frank