Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 13:02:12 +1000 From: "Richard Grace" <rgrace@itworks.com.au> To: "Sergey Perfiliev" <secure21@bellatlantic.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBsd Install problems Message-ID: <NDBBILBEBIHJBLOEIKKCGEOOCGAA.rgrace@itworks.com.au> In-Reply-To: <002201bfb573$61e5cd60$6401a8c0@isure7m4u6e1jd>
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> Richard, > > Thank you for taking your time to respond to the message. > > I checked to make sure that power saving features are off and it doesn't > seem like this 486 has them. > I was advised that it may not be possible to install release 4 on 8MB of > RAM. So, I will try upgrading the RAM to 20MB. It will be much nicer to work with if you have more memory. > Another concern that I have is that when I install from the local FTP > server, the installation goes upto 51% of Bin and halts. It does > say "Write > failure on transfer! (wrote 199608 bytes of 240640 bytes) (100%) > Could this > also be the result of "not enough memory"? Quite possibly, although I would also suspect the disk drive, try doing a low-level format of the drive using the BIOS utility, or even an MSDOS disk with the scandisk.exe program. Note - this will destroy any data on the disk. > Thank you for your help in advance. That's quite alright. Richard Grace. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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