Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:54:58 -0500 From: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org> To: Dennis Mathiasen <dennisma@adelphia.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4-STABLE on 386? Message-ID: <20011128185457.GB836@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <NFBBLPGAMKGJPAINGIJKIENPCIAA.dennisma@adelphia.net> References: <NFBBLPGAMKGJPAINGIJKIENPCIAA.dennisma@adelphia.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed Nov 28, 2001 at 12:17:49PM -0500, Dennis Mathiasen wrote: > > Mark Thomas Wrote: > > At 11:27 AM 11/28/01 -0500, Michael Lucas wrote: > > >If it boots, it installs. :) > > > > I don't think this is true. I had a similar machine I was going > > to try out > > and ran into the same issues. The list response on questions was more > > memory is required to install. > > I thought that was a possibility, so (not really knowing what I was > doing) replaced the kern.flp kernel with a stripped down kernel. Of > course it didn't start up sysinstall, it just couldn't find /sbin/init > and re-booted. Maybe there's a way to do this? From LINT: # # Embedded system options: # # An embedded system might want to run something other than init. options INIT_PATH="/sbin/init:/stand/sysinstall" Try adding that to your kernel config. And as an extreme mesure, try setting up an automatic sysinstall thing to setup swap by itself. See sysinstall(8). A. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjwFMwAACgkQttcWHAnWiGd/MQCgi6PZsjnk8v/RJU3f179ciqYL XpUAoILh6ZqRYPy1gLppXD1BZZhX1YRY =DjTW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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