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To: Swarthy <swarthy@dvdt.thetasys.com>
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Subject: Re: Console driver causes panic!? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Feb 1996 18:17:40 EST."
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Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 04:46:59 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Known and documented problem.  You're trying to install with 4MB,
and the minimum configuration for installation is 5MB now.

					Jordan

> Hello, i recently encountered a strange problem.
> 
> While trying to install FreeBSD onto my system, it would crash just before
> the (nice) color menu driven install screen. Crash with a panic: page fault
> that is. So, upon trying a bunch of things with the driver selector, i found
> the problem to be in the console driver. If i removed EVERYTHING except the
> console driver, it would still crash, but then, if i added all the stuff i 
> needed, and left out the console driver, it would boot fine, and jump right
> into the menu install screen...but i couldn't use my keyboard of course..
> 
> My setup is as follows:
> 
> 386 40Mhz no FPU - Desktop (NOT a laptop)
> 1 105MB IDE hd..
> 4 MB Ram (30 pin)
> One regular ISA serial port, HD controller.
> One NE2000 ethernet card, at IRQ 9.
> SVGA Card (Oak 77)
> No mouse, one 1.44 MB Floppy, standard keyboard.