On 7/28/05, Sharad Birmiwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all > i'm new to OpenBSD. i've worked on linux but wanted to try OpenBSD for > a test firewall and file server that i have to build. > i'm using a Pentium-1 (133 Mhz) box with 16 MB ram. i downloaded the > iso file and all the packages for version 3.7. > during installation, in the last step when it creates the devices in > /dev, the process seg faulted. i still continued and tried booting the > systen and it didn't work.
There is a note somewhere on the OpenBSD website about installing on machines with little ram. Basically, you need to drop to a shell, manually enable swap, then go back to the installation process you were at, and then have it make the device nodes. > so i booted from the CD again and found the MAKEDEV script. i ran > './MAKEDEV all' and it segfaulted again. so i manually created all the > nodes as './MAKEDEV ramdisk', 'std', 'local' etc. and then the system > seemed to work. > what could be the reason for this because when i install any package > with pkg_add, it always segfaults. could they be related? thing is i'm > here now. > another problem that has come up is that i had moved this server to a > new location (several hundreds of kilometer away) and now the system > crashes to a ddb> prompt usually within 30 minutes of booting. any > ideas? i can make out it's to debug the system? could it be a problem > with the ram or hdd? i can't make out anything from the message. the > error says there was some problem doing a mov instruction. any > advice?? > is there something else i should add? > > thanks > sharad birmiwal > india You're problems are all starting from the fact that you have very little ram. To solve pretty much everything, install AT LEAST 32MB ram (I'd go with 96MB or more) and then install from scratch. Jason
