From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 28 13:36:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2219D37B479 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 13:36:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from frogger.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@frogger.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.144]) by donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id QAA09660; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 16:36:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by frogger.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id QAA22371; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 16:36:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 16:36:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@frogger.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: Nils Holland Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Could it be the memory? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry 4mb of Ram is not enough to install FreeBSD. Close though. It can make it with 5MB. This is in the FAQ at www.freebsd.org See also www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html. I have 2 pieces of 4mb 30 pins simms if you want to work something out. Tim On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Nils Holland wrote: > Hi! > Well, today I got hold of a user 486-SX computer with 4 MB RAM. I thought > I'd get another 4 MB so that I have 8 MB in total, and then I'd install > FreeBSD on it. I was already looking forward to building that little > "test" machine, but before I could start I ran into a problem: > > When I try to boot from the 3.4-RELEASE install disks, first everything > works fine. After reading from the MFS-root disk, the counter starts > counting down before it starks booting the kernel (or, as it is with the > install boot disks, the kernel configure dialog). Now, when the counter > has reached 0 or I press ENTER, the config dialog does not > appear! Instead, the machine reboots! Not so nice, actually! > > Ok, I thought maybe the installed 4 MB are too little RAM, so I wanted to > put some more RAM into the machine. That plan was cancelled, however, when > after opening the box I realized that there are some tiny little 30-pin > SIMMS inside - and I only have some 72-pin pieces here. > > Well, what now? I could buy some used RAM to put into that machine - but > I'm not even sure that the problem is really related to memory! When > booting the machine, it says it has in total 3712 KB inside. Shouldn't > that *just* enough to test FreeBSD? > > So, any suggestions anybody? Can you imagine that too little RAM is really > the problem? Or do you think it's probably more likely something else. I > already tried changing some settings in the BIOS (well, actually not much > can be set there) and it didn't solve the problem. > > I wouldn't mind if I don't get that machine running - after all I got it > basically for free. But another FreeBSD box, no matter how slow, would > still be fine ;-) > > Greetings, > Nils Holland > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Nils Holland > NightCastle Productions * http://www.nightcastleproductions.org > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > 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