> > <snip> > > Anyway, try it, and let us know what happens. How much memory does the > system > have on it now? > > 64K. I'd like to get another M7891, mine is only 1/2 populated.
> > If it doesn't work, I can do some experiments and see what's the least > amount > of memory one needs. > > There are a whole bunch of parameters which will reduce the size of the > resident OS; if necessary, I can turn them all down to the minimum, and see > what we get - although just reducing the number of disk buffer may do it. > > OK. > As for the applications, it does swap, so there's no requirement for more > than > one process to be resident at a time, so whatever the largest is - probably > the C compiler - there only needs to be enough memory left over after the > OS > is loaded, for that one. It looks like the shell is about 10KB, for > example. > > > If it won't boot, don't trash the disk: if we send you another bootable > disk, > we can make it tiny (only Unix, and enough files to get it running: > /etc/init, > /bin/sh, etc), and if/once it books, you can mount the disk you just wrote > and > move the bootable Unix system image over, and then reboot on the current > disk, > to get to the rest of the stuff. > > Do you have two working RL drives on the machine? > > I was going to say...yes I have two working RL drives. > Noel > The build just finished. When I boot I get the ! prompt, but when I type rlinux the system bombs and I can go no farther Bill
