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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:54:58 -0500
From:      The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org>
To:        Dennis Mathiasen <dennisma@adelphia.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4-STABLE on 386?
Message-ID:  <20011128185457.GB836@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <NFBBLPGAMKGJPAINGIJKIENPCIAA.dennisma@adelphia.net>
References:  <NFBBLPGAMKGJPAINGIJKIENPCIAA.dennisma@adelphia.net>

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On Wed Nov 28, 2001 at 12:17:49PM -0500, Dennis Mathiasen wrote:
> >  Mark Thomas Wrote:
> > At 11:27 AM 11/28/01 -0500, Michael Lucas wrote:
> > >If it boots, it installs.  :)
> >=20
> > I don't think this is true. I had a similar machine I was going=20
> > to try out=20
> > and ran into the same issues. The list response on questions was more=
=20
> > memory is required to install.
>=20
> I thought that was a possibility, so (not really knowing what I was=20
> doing) replaced the kern.flp kernel with a stripped down kernel.  Of
> course it didn't start up sysinstall, it just couldn't find /sbin/init
> and re-booted.  Maybe there's a way to do this?

=46rom LINT:

#
# Embedded system options:
#
# An embedded system might want to run something other than init.
options         INIT_PATH=3D"/sbin/init:/stand/sysinstall"

Try adding that to your kernel config.

And as an extreme mesure, try setting up an automatic sysinstall thing
to setup swap by itself. See sysinstall(8).

A.

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