From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 28 10:53:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts20.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9644137B405 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:53:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from khan.anarcat.dyndns.org ([65.94.177.56]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20011128185330.CGJF25459.tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net@khan.anarcat.dyndns.org>; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:53:30 -0500 Received: from shall.anarcat.dyndns.org (shall.anarcat.dyndns.org [192.168.0.1]) by khan.anarcat.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6252B19FE; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:56:30 -0500 (EST) Received: by shall.anarcat.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 709A220ADB; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:54:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:54:58 -0500 From: The Anarcat To: Dennis Mathiasen Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4-STABLE on 386? Message-ID: <20011128185457.GB836@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org> Mail-Followup-To: Dennis Mathiasen , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tjCHc7DPkfUGtrlw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --tjCHc7DPkfUGtrlw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. :) > >=20 > > I don't think this is true. I had a similar machine I was going=20 > > to try out=20 > > and ran into the same issues. The list response on questions was more= =20 > > memory is required to install. >=20 > I thought that was a possibility, so (not really knowing what I was=20 > 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? =46rom LINT: # # Embedded system options: # # An embedded system might want to run something other than init. options INIT_PATH=3D"/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. --tjCHc7DPkfUGtrlw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----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----- --tjCHc7DPkfUGtrlw-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message