> device such as a tape (or a disk that also won't be installed to).
> 
> > 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.
> 
> An 8MB machine is an entirely different critter!  I think you could even
on 8MB machine all installers works fine.
on 4MB machine netbsd is REALLY not usable. ps xv shows 2800kB kernel RSS
with very stripped down kernel. 1200kB for user processes is not much