From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 3 19:59:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iserver.itworks.com.au (iserver.itworks.com.au [203.32.61.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A1DA37B99F for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 19:59:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rgrace@itworks.com.au) Received: (qmail 80858 invoked from network); 4 May 2000 02:59:47 -0000 Received: from maybe.itworks.com.au (203.36.209.235) by iserver.itworks.com.au with SMTP; 4 May 2000 02:59:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 90679 invoked from network); 4 May 2000 02:59:47 -0000 Received: from dhcp8.itworks.com.au (HELO paranoia) (203.36.209.217) by maybe.itworks.com.au with SMTP; 4 May 2000 02:59:47 -0000 Reply-To: From: "Richard Grace" To: "Sergey Perfiliev" Cc: Subject: RE: FreeBsd Install problems Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 13:02:12 +1000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <002201bfb573$61e5cd60$6401a8c0@isure7m4u6e1jd> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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