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Date:      Mon, 15 Jan 1996 20:13:36 +0100 (MET)
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Booting 2.1.0 (or 2.0.5) on Olivetti ECHOS 20
Message-ID:  <199601151913.UAA09777@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <199601150912.KAA11047@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 15, 96 10:12:49 am

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It seems that J Wunsch said:
> Only a few 4 MB machines are reported to have successfully booted the
> 2.1R installation floppy.  5 MB are the required minimum.  (People are
> working on it to get it back to 4.)
> 
> Perhaps you could add another 4 MB RAM just for installation, or
> pre-install the hard disk in another machine?

I made a  new set of floppies  with a dramatically  cut-down GENERIC kernel
(that's why I  wanted to do a  release...) and it not only  boot but it  is
installed and running fine now.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net
   FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #1: Wed Jan 10 02:23:42 MET 1996



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