Re: Help! Install stops at "Making all device nodes...".

[Al Oomens <aloomens@yahoo.com>]

It's working fine now with that setting. Thanks! Now
if I can just get the ppp dialup working... 

--- Atle Kristensen <afk@tiscali.no> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 09:17:55 -0700 (PDT)
> Al Oomens <aloomens@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > OK, great. Since I have 160M of memory, I would
> need
> > to use:
> > 
> > machine mem +0x9000000@0x1000000
> > 
> > Correct?
> 
> Yes. But be prepared that there can be too much.
> Decrease a little bit if your box is chrashing under
> the booting.
> 
> I was also messing with that. I did'nt like that I
> lost 404 Kb.
> (funny to read my old verbose notes at boot.conf)
> (chrashed if least than 404 Kb left) 
> Found that at my machine (OpenBSD 3.1-RELEASE,
> Compaq Prolinea 4/66)
> OpenBSD availing the 19 KB under real mem, who is
> 385 Kb under the memory
> counting at the booting.) So something is stealing
> 404Kb. ;)
> (Maybe my math was wrong, lots of time has runned
> now and I had forgotten a lot now.)
>  
> I assumed then that was something with the BIOS. Or
> aliens. Or me.
> 	
> This info is for you if you've experienced
> mysterious crashes.
> 
> -- 
> Atle Kristensen 
> Live Long And Prosper
> OpenBSD 3.4-beta GENERIC#135 i586 Pentium/MMX
> 


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