On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:35:46AM -0600, Carrie Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:58:33AM -0600, Carrie Jones wrote:
> > > Actually you are correct, it is dying before running swapon. I installed
> > > the boot tiny on to a 486 with 8mgs of memory. I had 1.4.3 installed and
> > > working fine, but it's eol'ed and I need to upgrade ssh, (what with all
> > > the recent security holes,) and ssh wouldn't upgrade on my 1.4
> > > installation.
> >
> > Are you sure you installed the GENERIC_TINY kernel ?
> > I don't know what the tiny INSTALL floppy will install by default.
> > GENERIC is 6MB large when GENERIC_TINY is only 1.5
> 
> Interesting. I went to the ftp.netbsd.org site, found the directory for
> boot disks and downloaded the boot_tiny disk, which I then used to install
> from. I tried using the boot_small first, but it wouldn't work, so I went
> to the boot_tiny. It sounds like the boot tiny should have worked fine all
> on it's own though. I will make a fresh boot_tiny disk and retry the
> installation again. Since I have no user data on the machine (Boy do I
> love burnable cd backups!) I can afford to blow it away again. I'll give

No need to install again. Just boot from floppy, get a shell, mount
the root partiton and check the size of /netbsd. It should be around 1.5MB.
if it's larger then download kern-GENERIC_TINY.tgz and extract it to overwrite
the /netbsd of the root partition.

You can also boot with root on HD from the floppy, using the floppy's kernel:
at the boot loader prompt type:
boot -a
and when it asks for root device, tell: wd0a


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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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