> With the 2-disc floppy set, it loads the image (completing the
> line with the hex numbers), waits for about 2 seconds
> (decompressing? Or is that done on the fly?) and then reboots.

The 2-disc floppy set will not have any hope of ever working on
4M machines.

The "small" version may also be too large for 4M machines.

1.4.2 has a "tiny" boot floppy; try that instead -- it's the only
one which has any hope of working.  There's still a few manual
tweaks you will have to try to get it to work.

If you get sysinst to run and label your disk, you will need to
manually suspend sysinst, run "swapon" to enable swapping on the
swap partition on the newly partitioned disk before proceeding with
the extraction phase of sysinst.  The gzip process needs sufficient
amounts of memory to exhaust available memory, and you'll otherwise
end up in a hang.

Lastly, you'll need to manually install the GENERIC_TINY kernel in
your root file system as "netbsd".  The normal GENERIC kernel in the
kern.tgz set will not boot on 4M machines.

Regards,

- H=E5vard