25 Jan
2006
25 Jan
'06
7:07 a.m.
Angel Martin Alganza wrote:
Which network card? It's very possible that the INSTALL_TINY kernel is
compiled without its support. I would suggest compiling a custom
INSTALL_TINY kernel with the support for your card added, and using that
kernel in the boot-tiny filesystem instead of the INSTALL_TINY kernel.
I've
successfully installed NetBSD recently with 4MB RAM. It sucks, and
you have to install manually, but it works.
Cool! I've just tried the network installation with the boot-tiny
floppy, but it fails to recognize my PCMCIA NIC. The normal boot
floppies won't work with 12MB. Where can I read about the manually installation you
refer to? I
woudn't mind installing even from floppies, since I enjoy reading
technical writings and trying out OS installations through different
methods.
Basically, it just involves doing everything sysinst does, but manually,
while skipping any steps which aren't completely necessary and use too
much RAM.
Peace... Sridhar