Howdy Chuck,

On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Chuck McManis wrote:

> 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've long wondered this myself.  I've got a KA630-A.V1.3 CPU board and I
the only board I've got that could be the RAM is a quad-wide board labeled
NS638.  The information I've been able to find about this board is that
it's got 8 megs.  All this leads me to believe that my system has only 9
megs of ram, in which case I don't understand the boot messages.
 
> 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.

I'll be giving it a try.  Thanks.  Any reason I shouldn't boot it over my 
existing installation?

[ one day delay while Greg forgets he left this in the postponed-messages
folder ]

Er, I did try but I failed.  Shouldn't I be able to use the booter to
select an alternative kernel?  If I interrupt the autoboot, I get the '>'
prompt.  I thought I could enter 'boot netbsd.MVII' to try a different
kernel.  I doesn't work.

Oh, and I can't actually enter the 'MVII' part because the booter doesn't
seem to recognize uppercase letters.  :o

And FWIW, the MVII kernel you built is still 140% of the size of the
1.4 'SMIDGEN' kernel.

- Greg