> | getting extra 4*1MB SIMMs shouldn't be a problem. with 8MB RAM NetBSD runs
> | just fine
>
> Hmm .. with 8MB RAM NetBSD runs OK, I wouldn't say 'fine'. At least on
> my 386 25MHz machine. Custom kernel with everything stripped but the
> bare necesities (such as IPv6 ;). The best part was the boot after the

did you stripe down BUFPAGES too? (like 64)

> initial install. I thought it had gone horribly wrong because it
> didn't reply to pings. I searched high and low for a monitor to
> connect to the box, after about an hour I found one. Hooked it up and
> it was still generating SSH keys ;P

that's ssh problem. anyway does sshd need fpu?

on 386DX/40 it doesn't take more than a minute.

> It does make a nice DHCP & DNS server though ;)
>
> $ uptime
> 12:13AM  up 507 days, 21:12, 1 user, load averages: 0.12, 0.12, 0.09

thats nice :)