[aklug] Re: NetBSD on Cobalts

take the drive out.. put it in an x86 box.. use qemu-system-mips :)

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Did a little more poking around w/ NetBSD under Virtualbox. I realize
> that in one case I'm using x86 and the other mips, but ...
>
> What I've found is that right around 32 MB seems to be a tipping point
> and there probably isn't much point in going any further until I find
> some more ram. I think I'll need to re-install and tell it to create
> some swap as well to give me a little breathing room. The default
> install apparently doesn't create a swap partition w/ NetBSD.
>
> NetBSD =A0w/ 64 MB
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0boots normally, Webmin works, 'cat /proc/meminfo' shows 21=
804K
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0free
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0w/ 32 MB
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0boots normally, Webmin still works, 'cat /proc/meminfo' sh=
ows
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0120K free
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0w/ 30MB
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0boots normally, Webmin starts - goes to all white page whe=
n
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0access attempted, NetBSD/Virtualbox terminal window shows =
uid 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0killed due to lack of swap, 'cat /proc/meminfo' shows 36K =
free.
>
> --
> Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>
>
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Received on Sun Sep 12 18:09:56 2010