From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 22 5:30: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.gti.net (apollo.gti.net [199.171.27.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D8A037B422 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 05:30:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from y3k@gti.net) Received: from sludge.amc-inc.com (ts5m-pool0-39.gti.net [208.216.126.39]) by apollo.gti.net (mail) with ESMTP id 31C3F14598C; Tue, 22 May 2001 08:29:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <01dc01c0e270$5c4ba610$0300a8c0@oracle> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 07:23:07 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: Mark Yeck From: Mark Yeck To: Doug Young Subject: Re: Question Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, KiwiCado23@aol.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22-May-01 Doug Young wrote: > >> Unsure of the proper source of information, I turn to whoever this > e-mail >> address belongs to. I attempted to install FreeBSD on a ancient 386 > laptop >> and it is not working, are you the correct e-mail address to > diagnose the >> problem or can you please direct me to the appropriate person. >> > the "386 laptop" tells the story :) > > I've never found installation works properly with less than 16Mb RAM, > and very > few geriatric 386 laptops of my acquaintance had more than 4Mb. > Furthermore > laptops are probably the worst machine possible to install any unix > ... they typically > have the weirdest hardware in existence & its often difficult even > installing Windows !! Not too long ago, I installed 4.2-R on a 486-25 laptop with 12MB RAM and a 200MB disk. It was relatively straightforward, though I suspect that it would take significantly more work to install on a system with less memory or disk than that. -mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message