Subject: Re: Installing NetBSD on a low-memory 486
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/05/2000 11:51:50
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 02:32:43PM -0400, John Hawkinson wrote:
> 
> Perhaps the INSTALL kernel should try to detect when the machine has Not Enough
> Memory and try to give some useful error and instructions rather than just
> failing? [ i.e. give the user instructions on using the _TINY kernel ]

If the machine reboot without message I fear the kernel won't be able to
do much. Maybe the boot loader could ?

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