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From: grinten@sv05wld.wldelft.nl (Gerard J van der Grinten)
Subject: Re: Where can I get a NetBSD/386 kernel
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 14:12:09 GMT
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In article <3id3jv$pen@newstand.syr.edu>, lruppert@avalon.syr.edu (Lou Ruppert) writes:
> 
> Where can I get a NetBSD kernel compiled for my 386sx/33 with 4 MB of
> RAM?  I have 16 MB of swap allocated for it, but apparently that is
> not enough memory for it to build the kernel, because it dies during
> linking each of the times that I've tried it.  I need to get a kernel
> that supports the bpf device so I can run rarpd and bootparamd, so
> that I can put NetBSD on my Sun 3/50's.  Has anyone had any success in
> trying to build the wretched thing on a machine with 4 MB of ram?  Is
> there a way to cross-compile it on a box running Linux?
> 
> -Lou
> (who is new to NetBSD, but a veteran to Linux and is still having
> culture shock over the shells and the new passwd format.)
> -- 
> "Until you stalk and overrun, you can't devour anyone."   -Hobbes
> Lou Ruppert			lruppert@mailbox.syr.edu
> 	"The UNIX Weenie home page": http://avalon.syr.edu/
> My opinions are my own.  My attention span isn't long enough for


Boot in single user mode ( -s ) , mount -a and build your kernel.

This saves a lot of space in memory and you are not swapping/paging that much.
This is wat i did to get FreeBSD kernel build.
(unable to build NetBSD-current anymore, too many conflicts)
Regards, Gerard.
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