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Hi,

> > > Looks like there's only 4Mb of RAM in this thing.
> > > Is that not enough to do anything in?
> >
> > Install manually.  Among first things you could mount a swap file over
> > NFS, or something.  Not very fast, but it's feasible.
> 
> Hard things to do for a beginner, but the hints: After sysinst crashed, do
> "disklabel -i" manually to create a swap partition on your disk, activate this
> with swapctl (i hope it is on the sysinst disk, never used sysinst on a VAX :),
> and then just restart sysinst.
> But i think a VAX with just 4 Megs RAM doesn't make much sense with the GENERIC
> kernel. And with those 4 Megs, it might take weeks to build a better kernel for
> this machine... hard task :)

When I got my first vax (MV3100/m10e) back in December - it had 4M of
RAM. It was a *REAL* bastard to get it installed - ended up doing
allsorts, making swap by hand on a spare HDD, then installing. Once
installed, it *would* boot with GERNIC, but I never left it long enough to
get to the login promt - it took something around 6 hours to boot :&(

8M is much more usable. Someone on the list was very kind and sent me a
couple of 4M cards (even tho you can only put one in at once). Bob was
kind enough to send me another 12M (thanks bob! package arrived the other
day and all works fine) so I have a couple of 4M cards going spare if
anyone's intrested. (they say 5419051-AA 5019050-01 A1-P2 on the end) I
don't know what boxen will take these - I'm presuking
MicroVax3100/VaxStation3100.

- -- Matt

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