Gregg,

I installed NetBSD on a NEC Versa 4050H, a Pentium 90 MHz with 40 MB of
memory. I do not have a CD-ROM reader and, at the time, I did not have an
Ethernet card. I created a 200 MB partition, installed MS DOS 6.2,
installed Kermit 3.14 (the real one from Columbia University), borrowed a
null-modem serial cable, connected to the serial port of another NetBSD
system, transfered the NetBSD distribution files to a sub-directory, and
installed NetBSD using the option 'from mounted partition'. The trick was
to mount the DOS partition before getting to the relevant question. I
interrupted the install script with ^Z and resumed with 'fg'.

NetBSD runs well on the laptop. I now have an Ethernet card and use the
system for network trouble shooting.

I hope this helps.

On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers
> I have just acquired a Dell Lattitude XP Laptop. It does not have a CD drive,
> although this model has been sold wearing one. It does a have PC card based
> modem. Any suggestions for installing NetBSD on it? For example exactly how
> much memory is considered optimum?

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