On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:32:32AM -0700, John Nemeth wrote:
> On Oct 26, 10:17am, "Perry E. Metzger" wrote:
> } 
> } It is becoming increasingly difficult maintaining the
> } bootfloppy-{small,tiny} and rescue-tiny boot floppy images.
> } 
> } If we stopped supporting them, would this materially inconvenience
> } anyone? Has anyone here used any of these images recently?  Hardware
> } that needs either of these is now quite old, and it is always possible
> } to build a custom boot floppy if needed.
> 
>      More to the point, if you have to use these floppies, you probably
> won't be able to install NetBSD anyways.  Under 1.6.x, I couldn't run
> sysinst on my old 8MB laptop without having it crash.  Even if I could
> get it installed, a GENERIC kernel was so big that it consumed all
> memory.  I don't completely recall now, but this might have even been
> true for 1.5.x.  I seem to recall being stuck running a really old
> version of NetBSD until I lucked out and found some memory for it on
> eBay.  However, I've since replaced the laptop.  I suspect that if you
> want to run a recent version of NetBSD, you're just going to have to
> have a decent amount of memory.

I'm sure I booted 2.0 on a 8MB i386. Of course you have to use GENERIC_SMALL
or GENERIC_TINY, not GENERIC. But it works.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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