From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 28 12:30:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailc.telia.com (mailc.telia.com [194.22.190.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D244337B419 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 12:30:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailc.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fASKUKh26649 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:30:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA02942 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:30:19 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 73926 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Nov 2001 20:30:17 -0000 Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:30:17 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Brian Reichert Cc: Dennis Mathiasen , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4-STABLE on 386? Message-ID: <20011128203017.GA73875@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Brian Reichert , Dennis Mathiasen , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20011128142901.A90607@numachi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011128142901.A90607@numachi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 02:29:01PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: > 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. > > Possibly not. I recall (anecdotally) that recent versions of > FreeBSD dropped support for the native hard drive controllers on > [34]86-based motherboards. You probably recall wrong or at least not quite right. What you might be thinking of is that support for old MFM/RLL/ESDI disks was removed between 3.x and 4.0 but I think most 386's and all 486 machines used normal IDE controllers anyway. Any of those pre-IDE disks would almost certainly be too small to install 4-STABLE on anyway. Installing 4-STABLE on a machine with only 8 MB RAM can be problem. I believe the installation process requires at least 12 MB memory. It is perfectly possible to run 4-STABLE on a 386 with 8 MB RAM once it has been installed on the other hand. I am doing exactly that. (Originally installed 3.2-RELEASE, have since updated from source in several steps.) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message