I'm trying to install 5.4 on an old ThinkPad 760EL and running into some
trouble, probably due to how little RAM it has - 16 MB. The install from
the floppy54.fs image went well, no problems. When the machine boots up
for the first time, SSH key generation takes an hour (the laptop is very
slow) but then the laptop hangs after "Starting RPC Daemons:.". I left
the laptop on for 12 hours at this stage and it did not change. Is it
possible to get 5.4 to run on this machine? I have read INSTALL.i386 and
it says that I need at least 32 MB of RAM for 5.4. Should I install an
earlier release which requires less RAM? I want to use this laptop for
light text editing and checking emails, I realise that it may not be
possible to get X to work. Following is a dmesg from a floppy54.fs
diskette. Apologies if there is something obvious I should be doing.
OpenBSD 5.4 (RAMDISK) #35: Tue Jul 30 12:22:02 MDT 2013
dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RAMDISK
cpu0: Intel Pentium (P54C) ("GenuineIntel" 586-class) 133 MHz
cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8
real mem = 16314368 (15MB)
avail mem = 11505664 (10MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 11/01/96, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfda60
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xfdaa0/0x800
pcibios0: pcibios_get_intr_routing - function not supported
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing information unavailable.
pcibios0: PCI bus #4 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000
cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor)
cpu0: F00F bug workaround installed
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82437MX" rev 0x02
pcib0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82371FB ISA" rev 0x02
pciide0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 "Intel 82371FB IDE" rev 0x02: DMA, channel 0
wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <IBM-DCRA-22110>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 2016MB, 4128768 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled)
"TI PCI1130 CardBus" rev 0x04 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 not configured
"TI PCI1130 CardBus" rev 0x04 at pci0 dev 2 function 1 not configured
vga1 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "Trident TGUI 9660" rev 0xd3
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
isa0 at pcib0
isadma0 at isa0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
pcic0 at isa0 port 0x3e0/2 iomem 0xd0000/16384
pcic0 controller 0: <Intel 82365SL rev 1> has sockets A and B
pcmcia0 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 0
pcmcia1 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 1
ep1 at pcmcia1 function 0 "3Com Corporation, 3C589D, TP/BNC LAN Card Ver. 2a"
port 0x340/16, irq 9: address 00:10:4b:f7:fa:f0, utp/aui/bnc (default utp)
pcic0: irq 5, polling enabled
root on rd0a swap on rd0b dump on rd0b
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