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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2001 12:27:33 -0500
From:      Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        Mark Thomas <thomas@pbegames.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4-STABLE on 386?
Message-ID:  <20011128122733.A57733@blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011128114947.01f94060@pbegames.com>; from thomas@pbegames.com on Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:51:31AM -0500
References:  <NFBBLPGAMKGJPAINGIJKAENMCIAA.dennisma@adelphia.net> <NFBBLPGAMKGJPAINGIJKAENMCIAA.dennisma@adelphia.net> <20011128112720.A57322@blackhelicopters.org> <5.1.0.14.2.20011128114947.01f94060@pbegames.com>

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True.  What I should have said was, 

"If it boots after the install, you have enough."

It sounded as if he got it running, but the network card doesn't
work...

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:51:31AM -0500, Mark Thomas wrote:
> At 11:27 AM 11/28/01 -0500, Michael Lucas wrote:
> >If it boots, it installs.  :)
> 
> I don't think this is true. I had a similar machine I was going to try out 
> and ran into the same issues. The list response on questions was more 
> memory is required to install.
> 
> >On a 386, I'd bet that you have a classic IRQ mismatch.  What sort of
> >network card do you have, and how does it show up in
> >/var/run/dmesg.boot.
> >
> >On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:24:14AM -0500, Dennis Mathiasen wrote:
> > > Is it possible to install 4-STABLE on a 386DX with 8 Meg of memory?
> > > The machine has no cd-rom.
> > >
> > > It appears to work normally except that the network card won't answer
> > > a ping so it goes nowhere.
> > >
> > > Dennis Mathiasen
> > > dennisma@adelphia.net
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mark
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