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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: New NetBSD user lost in new installion land Date: 13 Aug 1993 03:20:43 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 37 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.93Aug12232043@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <andrew.745052041@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: andrew@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au's message of Wed, 11 Aug 1993 06:54:01 GMT (apart from the install script on disk one erroring out before it actually did anything :-) ) This was fixed very shortly after 0.8 was released. If you are seeing it, then you downloaded old installation disk images. In particular during the /etc/rc (after a successful installation) "Rebuilding databases" an error condition will occur and the system goes (quickly) into a reboot cycle (I dont actually get to see the error printed, too quick. Never heard of this before. Umm, I also can only get the GENERICISA kernel to compile, I tried to modify it (just to prove to myself I had "everything" installed) and, no go. (reporting too big for 640k with bss) If you tried to put too much stuff in the config file I'm sure it would bloat the kernel to the point where it wouldn't boot. With NetBSD 0.9 you can boot kernels that are large than 640K (though currently you will lose the low 640K of viable memory if you do). How to do this will (I hope B-) be in the release notes. kernel is unnecessary (if it is GENERIC) however I was a just trying to increase the number of pty's ( to 16) ) NetBSD 0.9 also dynamically allocates tty structures; in particular, this includes the ring buffers. The BSS for the kernel is thus much smaller, even with 64 ptys. through the 386* groups (not non-existant, just low) I assume there are more than ten people actually using this OS ? I can think of more than ten people who regularly make changes to our source tree, so I would assume so. B-)