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Date:      Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:52:43 +1000 (EST)
From:      "Frederick Bowes" <fred@k1x.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Pentium 120 reboots after loading mfsroot floppy.
Message-ID:  <.128.250.18.41.1066607563.squirrel@www.k1x.org>
In-Reply-To: <C9159713-0193-11D8-9DBA-003065767D74@uia.net>
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Thanks all for your replies, For future peoples reference. I managed to 
scrounge some more ram so it had 16 instead of 8 meg, and it boots
prpoerly now. I had forgotten sysinstall needed more than 8MB of ram. I
thrown off because it was just rebooting instead of printing an error.

 - Fred

"Frederick Bowes" <fred@k1x.org> writes:
> I was hoping to try out FreeBSD on an old machine I have been given
> (Pentium 120, 514MB HD, 8mb ram) and it reboots after loading the
> mfsroot
> floppy disk. You insert the disk, it goes /|\|/ for a while then
> reboots.



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