Subject: Re: sysinst reboots before doing anything useful
To: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/04/1999 07:22:35 
> It reads the floppy for the install, prints some messages, like:
> 
> (perry@cynic.cynic.net) Fri May 7 11:30:41 PDT 1999
> >> Memory 640/3072K
> 
> 1544192+1695744+139784 = 0x3392...
> 
> (I couldn't quite catch the last few digits of the hex number, because the
> machine rebooted.).

For a 4M system, try the "tiny" install floppy:

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4/i386/installation/floppies/boot-tiny.fs

						- Bill