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Date:      Tue, 7 Nov 1995 02:37:38 +0000 ()
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        Mittomonai@aol.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: installing freeBSD
Message-ID:  <199511070237.CAA02539@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <951106195421_14599871@emout05.mail.aol.com> from "Mittomonai@aol.com" at Nov 6, 95 08:17:19 pm

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Mittomonai@aol.com stands accused of saying:
> 
> I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a AST 100 MHZ pentium machine running
> windows 95.  I  created a boot disk, but when I start my computer with the
> boot disk in I get some messages about expanding the kernal and then the
> computer just hangs.  This is not the very long pause reffered to in the

You either have only 4M of memory (a crime for a 100MHz p5), or a bad
motherboard chipset.  Have you tried disabling all caching yet?

> Tony Hall

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