From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 30 8: 4:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mrs-2.smartworld.net (mrs-2-fix.smartworld.net [216.70.64.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B405C37BBDA for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 08:04:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trw@freewwweb.com) Received: from tw (1Cust212.tnt16.det3.da.uu.net [63.17.34.212]) by mrs-2.smartworld.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA07893 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:04:06 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <000701bf9a61$6f088dc0$d422113f@tw> From: "Todd Wade" To: Subject: No boot/loader Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:03:01 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0004_01BF9A37.83F7D800" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BF9A37.83F7D800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I would like to set up a unix OS on this old laptop that is a mitac 486 = SX with a 25 mhz intel pentium processor with 4 mb of ram, so I can = install apache, perl and a browser and develop CGI programs away from my = desk. When the mfsroot disk goes to boot I see it try to run boot/loader = and then it states "No boot/loader". The disk starts up properly on my = desktop pc so im sure its the laptop. What I'm wondering is should I = give up on the laptop? Your input is very much appreciated. Thank You, Todd Wade ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BF9A37.83F7D800 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I would like to set up a unix OS on this old laptop = that is a=20 mitac 486 SX with a 25 mhz intel pentium processor with 4 mb of ram, so = I can=20 install apache, perl and a browser and develop CGI programs away = from my=20 desk. When the mfsroot disk goes to boot I see it try to run boot/loader = and=20 then it states "No boot/loader". The disk starts up properly on my = desktop=20 pc so im sure its the laptop. What I'm wondering is should I give up on = the=20 laptop? Your input is very much appreciated.

Thank You,

Todd Wade

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