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Hi,

Thanks for the advice, but...

> > My problem is thus:
> > The machine has 4M physical RAM. I've got the NetBSD-1.5 install
> > netbooting as far as loading the kernel, but it get's to running
> > sysinst, then drops out having run out of swap. I'm passing a
> > swap=fourway:/path/to/swap argument with bootparam, but it doesn't
> > seem to be picking it up (swap is a 32M file). I'm sure there's a way
> > round this.
> 
> Yeah, that's probably a worthwhile bug to report.  I'm not sure I've ever
> been able to get the "swap=" option in bootparam to be picked up properly.

Right. I'll bear that in mind, might even look into it when I get my fast
connection bac after christmas.
 
> What I've done in the past with tight installs like this is to exit out of
> sysinst.  Next you manually mount up the swap space.  I've only done this
> with local swap partitions, but it should work fine with NFS mounted
> files.

That's what I've done with linux installs in the past, I'm just not
familiar enough with netbsd yet :&/

> Use NFS to mount up the filesystem on which the remote swap file lives.
> And the use swapctl to add the file as swap space.
> 
>   # mkdir /some_local_mntpoint
>   # mount fourway:/path/to /some_local_mntpoint
>   # swapctl -a /some_local_mntpoint/swap
> 
> The re-run sysinst (I think it's in the path by default?)
> 
>   # sysinst

We have a problem:
UVM: pid 16 (mount_nfs), uid 0 killed: out of swap

I recon the 2M ramdisk, which is full, is a bit too much for my poor 4M
vax :&(

Now if I could get the root mounted over NFS and not use a ramdisk, I
think we could be in with a chance. I suspect that would be wanting a new
kernel tho, which I don't think I can make here very easily.

Bye for now,

       Matt
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