[comp.unix.microport] Running Microport Sys V with 2megs?

880139h@aucs.uucp (Rob Hutten) (08/05/90)

I recently purchased a IPC 386/25 with a 110meg Microscience HD with an
integrated AT controller and 2megs RAM (SIPs, if that makes any difference..)
ANYWAY, I'm trying to get Microport SYS V up & running on it but I get
a kernal panic error when I try to install it.  The docs say only 1.5 megs
is required, but that 2.5 is recommended.  Has anyone out
there got Microport up with 2 megs?  How'dya do it, huh?

The local demi-guru at work claims the extra RAM should do the trick, but
I'm just a poor yooniversitee stoodent and I don't wanna drop big bucks 
to upgrade my RAM unless I have to.

Tanks.  

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'cause I don't get access to this account very much. 

-Rob Hutten

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john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) (08/06/90)

In article <1990Aug4.235815.1146@aucs.uucp>, 880139h@aucs.uucp (Rob Hutten) writes:
> 
> I recently purchased a IPC 386/25 with a 110meg Microscience HD with an
> integrated AT controller and 2megs RAM (SIPs, if that makes any difference..)
> ANYWAY, I'm trying to get Microport SYS V up & running on it but I get
> a kernal panic error when I try to install it.  The docs say only 1.5 megs
> is required, but that 2.5 is recommended.  Has anyone out
> there got Microport up with 2 megs?  How'dya do it, huh?

    I kinda doubt the amount of memory is the problem. You can boot up
 a 386 with Microport V/386 on just 1MB of memory. You can't really run
 much but it will boot. I seem to recall that way back when I tried
 booting off the boot disk on a machine with only 640K and it would just
 simply reboot itself at some point after trying to come up. I dont
 remember getting any panics.


						John


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