Thanks!  I didn't understand that the boot-tiny.fs was for 4 MB systems, as
I thought it was for 1.2 MB diskettes.

But, good news, it does boot and I get further into the process; thanks!

When trying to FTP the distribution, I get:

/sbin/ping -c <my nameserver IP address> UVM: pid 13 (sysinst), uid 0 killed:
out of swap

UVM: pid 47 (ping), uid 0 killed: out of swap.

I did the "rule of thumb" which is that swap space = actual RAM, or 4 MB.

I didn't see any particular comment in the install.html document saying
that swap needed to be some particular size, but apparently, it needs to be
somewhat greater than 4 MB.

Any hints on this?  Or should I just try various swap sizes until it works?

Thanks again!

-Mike


On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> > 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
>