Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:30:17 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> Cc: Dennis Mathiasen <dennisma@adelphia.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4-STABLE on 386? Message-ID: <20011128203017.GA73875@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <20011128142901.A90607@numachi.com> References: <NFBBLPGAMKGJPAINGIJKAENMCIAA.dennisma@adelphia.net> <20011128142901.A90607@numachi.com>
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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.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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