Hi Greg,

That isn't a "minimal" system by any means, Matt has a much harder time of 
it trying to get the 4MB 3100 installed. Although how you get to 11MB I'm 
not sure (1MB on the CPU + 8MB + 2MB?) 4MB boards are pretty common if you 
need a bit more ram.

I built something that should be usable on it, surf over to:
<http://www.mcmanis.com/chuck/computers/vaxen/> and get the kernel and 
config file from the NetBSD resource section.

--Chuck

At 02:32 PM 12/22/00 -0600, you wrote:

>Howdy,
>
>I haven't fiddled with my VAX lately.  We had a power outage and my
>suitable serial console was on the other side of the building and the
>booter won't finish its countdown when the machine is coldstarted.
>
>But I have been reading the list and now that I've hauled the VAX over to
>Mouhamed, I'm back in business.  So, a couple of questions:
>
>1)  Is 1.5 worth trying on a low-memory VAX?  My system:
>
>         MicroVAX II
>         realmem = 11526144
>         avail mem = 8810496
>         Using 140 buffers containing 573440 bytes of memory.
>
>2)  I'm currently running a kernel named _SMIDGEN_ that some kind soul
>built to remove all the stuff the uVAX II didn't need in order to save as
>much memory as possible.  Might somebody build such a kernel for 1.5?
>
>3)  Has the little problem with the booter not booting after a cold start
>been found/fixed?
>
>Regards,
>
>- Greg