Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:47:10 -0000 From: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk> To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "'acton@opentext.com'" <acton@opentext.com> Subject: Re: How much RAM for 3.1-RELEASE? Message-ID: <DD2AB7991BC6D211988E00A024AC583B0269D8@exchange.nectech.co.uk>
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Hi Donald, I bet it's the RAM and not the floating point emulation. I also experienced varying times until the hang (using FTP), and I think another person on the list has also had similar probs with 3.1 and 8MB. By the way, my problem machine has a 486DX2, so that might rule out the floating point possibility. I think I'll try your method of moving the disk to another machine to install. regards, Jeff >I too had problems installing 3.1 on a machine with only 8MB of memory. I was >doing an NFS install. The point at which the machine hung during the >installation (i.e. once it had started copying files to the disk) varied >wildly from nearly right away to almost finished. I eventually installed 3. 1 >by moving the disk to another system and installing from there. With the new >system installed everything worked fine when the disk was moved back to the >old machine. Since the machine in question is a 33MHz 486SX machine I >attributed the problem to something to do with the floating point emulation >since that part of the system had given me grief in the past. Based on the >comments in the LINT kernel configuration file, and messages in this >newsgroup, I built a kernel for this machine that uses the GPL-licensed >emulator taken from Linux and have been running that kernel for the past week >and a half without problems. > > >Donald Acton >acton@opentext.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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