Subject: Re: installing with sysinst on small (4MB, i386) systems....
To: NetBSD/i386 Discussion List <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/16/2001 16:00:20
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:33:55PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> There are two obvious choices:
> 
> 	1. go back to using a separate root filesystem on a second
>            floppy for the *-tiny tools.
> 
> 	2. swap to floppy (or if you're lucky some other device which
>            won't be used during the install process)  I think even 1.2MB
>            additional virtual memory would suffice....

3. create a swap partition on a local or a remote hard drive and use it.

a few days ago I successfully installed 1.5.1_BETA on my 486DLC 8MB
laptop over a 38400 SLIP connection with sysinst.  it took quite a while
to extract the sets, but it did work.

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  Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier@poofygoof.com