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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: I got a kernel error!!!
To: costins@ulise.cs.pub.ro
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:13:07 -0700 (MST)
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> I've got FreeBSD 2.1.0 from the funet archive. I installed it on a
> Compaq 386 20Mhz with 10Mb RAM and it works just fine.
> The problem is I can't install the kernel on my computer
> (DTK 486DX2-S 4Mb RAM 1Mb SVGA). The error message I get is this one:
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> fault virtual address =0x0
> fault code=supervisor read,page not present
> processor eflags=interrupt enabled,resume,IOPL=0.
> I realy want to install FreeBSD and not Linux so I'd appreciate if
> you could give me some advice about this error.

The install requires 5M.

Get the 4M SNAP image or borrow some RAM (which you can return after
the install).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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