OpenBSD questions: (1) memory; (2) Mitsumi CD-ROMs

[agabriel at coe.neu.edu (Anthony J. Gabrielson)]

Hello,
	You need to pull rawrite off of a linux distribution and then make
the floppy.  I forget what directory the image is in.  After that you need
to follow the cdcase manual just about word for word for it to work.

Hope thats a help,
Anthony

On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Seth Gordon wrote:

> I have an 486SX machine that's at least five years old, and I'm trying
> to install OpenBSD on it.  I have installed a new hard drive, a
> not-so-old CD-ROM, and a new 3.5" floppy drive.  (When I got the
> machine, it had a 5.25" drive.)
> 
> Two questions about getting this thing running:
> 
> (1) The machine has 4 MB RAM, and nobody makes the kind of SIMMs it
> uses  any more (SIMMs of 30-pin, 1-MB, parity RAM).  I just want to
> use this thing as a firewall and mail/news server; for these purposes,
> how much will the limited RAM slow me down?  And does anyone out there
> want to sell me 4 MB of obsolete RAM?
> 
> (2) The CD-ROM is a Mitsumi.  According to the footnotes on the
> OpenBSD/i386 page, support for the Mitsumi CD-ROM is in the "generic"
> kernel, but not in the kernel on the installation floppy.  So how to I
> make an installation floppy that *does* support that device?
> 
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