Re: Re: 2.6 install dies.

[Eugene Bobin <gene@utb.ru>]

On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 11:54:14PM +0000, David Uhring wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Dec 1999, Adam A. Newman wrote:
> > I have an old laptop that i use when i travel. It was running 2.5, but 2.6
> > had the xe driver so i couldn't resist since i've been wanting to get it
> > working on the net as well as being a travel box to noodle on.
> > 
> > anyway. I decided to wipe the disk and start fresh with an install of 2.6.
> > It finishes all the downloads and then asks for my timezone. i give it and
> > it starts running "sh /dev/MAKEDEV all" and hangs. I've even left it over
> > night just to see if it times out. nadda.
> > 
> > Any advice? its not that important, but it would be nice to have a moble
> > unit.
> > 
> > thanks.
> > 

> I had the same thing happen with an old IBM 330-466DX2 with 8M of RAM.
> Installed another 8M and the install went through perfectly.
Right, as I recall I have the same problem.. Install just hangs
on "sh /dev/MAKEDEV all" if your system have 8 meg of RAM.
And, afair, /me just ^C it, ran sh /dev/MAKEDEV all by hands,
(it works smoothly), then just 
sed -e 's/sh /dev/MAKEDEV/all//' install >i
sh ./i 
and do install again, lot of questions was skipped by this way.

So when ./i finished, I rebooted machine and... Hmmm, stop
sorry, Now I completely recalled all situation, so after boot machine
just hangs while booting kernel, claiming that there's no enough memory
for kernel buffers.. 

I have a feeling that If you can build custom install diskette, with much
lighter kernel than GENERIC, you could have succes with installation,
probably.

Btw, anybody have OpenBSD 2.6 running on 486PC with 4mg RAM? 
I just have spare notebook, and want to run OpenBSD on it. 

Best regards,
-- 
Eugene Bobin

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