Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 06:17:35 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "Mark Banschbach" <mrbear37@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: installation headaches Message-ID: <002701c08254$e27a3f20$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <20010119191801.26890.qmail@web3602.mail.yahoo.com>
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Ummmm .....the experts will, no doubt, suggest that this question belongs in the "questions" rather than the "newbies" list so I've posted it to both My suggestion is to beg borrow steal or hire a bunch of 4Mb RAM sticks .... I've had a bunch of those dinosaurs running even 4.2 quite well (in command line mode anyway) but don't even think about trying it with 4Mb RAM ..... I've never had any joy installing with less than 16 although I've done the odd one that worked OK with 8 after installation. Couple other issues you need to be aware of .... don't even think of running X on a 386, and if you intend connecting a modem it will most probably need to be an internal 28.8k or 33.6k (NOT a 56k one !!!!) to get around the prehistoric UARTs. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Banschbach" <mrbear37@yahoo.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 5:18 AM Subject: installation headaches > Greetings ! > > I have an old.. 386 which has 4 megs of RAM.. I have > been attempting for the last number of days to install > FreeBSD on this computer and with limited success.. > I have tried both the Linux DD install and the DOS > FDIMAGE install and have gotten the same results both > times. Here is what happens: > > The first floppy loads.. then propts for the second > floppy. the second floppy finishes loading and after > that loads I get a prompt that says hit ENTER to > reboot or any other key for a command prompt or wait X > seconds and the computer will reboot automatically. > > > Now, if I wait and let it boot.. it boots back into > DOS. If I hit ENTER it boots to DOS, if I hit any > other key I will get a prompt that says OK.. and I can > hit "?" and get a list of commands.. listing modules.. > and a load utility ls.. and a few others.. but that is > it ! what do I do ?? > > Your Help would be immensely appreciated ! > > Mark > MrBear37@yahoo.com > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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