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>On May 23, 2004, at 8:45 PM, Paul Sander wrote:

>> Here's a status update on this install:
>>
>> I reinstalled mkfs, installer, and booter.  I wiped the root partition.
>> I installed all of the binary sets with the following difference:  In 
>> my
>> prior attempts, I installed the kernel-generic set.  This time I 
>> installed
>> the kernel-genericsbc set.  Then I booted NetBSD.  Still no joy.  It 
>> hangs
>> at the same place.

>That place being:

>> root file system type: ffs

Yes.

>On my Q700, booting tended to create a filesystem within swap for 
>/dev/console or something like that (dmesg isn't particularly revealing 
>about this and I can't recall the boot message; ISTR that it should be 
>in the archives, though).  Anyway, at that point boot appears to hang 
>but does proceed after a few minutes.

I've left it for several hours to no avail.

>> I have since successfully installed NetBSD on a second Q700.  The only
>> differences between the machines that I can find are:
>> - Broken machine has 20MB RAM, working machine seems to claim that it 
>> has
>>   68MB RAM.
>> - Broken machine has 2GB disk, working machine has 1GB disk with a loud
>>   bearing.
>>
>> Is 20MB of RAM sufficient to boot NetBSD?  It had been working in the
>> past.  This same machine ran NetBSD 1.5.1.

>My Q700 ran NetBSD 1.6.1 and 1.6.2 OK with 20 MB RAM.

That's good to know.

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