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Date:      Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:57:22 +0200
From:      "freebsd" <george@vagner.com>
To:        "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>, "Rob Wilkinson" <Chains@Ultranet.ca>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Installation on a 486-2/66
Message-ID:  <LPBBKFCBJMKMFLIMDPEJEENICEAA.george@vagner.com>
In-Reply-To: <012e01bfed2e$c8fa7940$b7430ace@hacker>

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i believe you need more ram minimum of 12 meg to install 3.0 and above
although 2.2.8 will do it with 5 meg.



No 2 things can be the same, they cannot
exist in the same space at the same time. 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Josh Paetzel
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 3:00 AM
To: Rob Wilkinson; questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Installation on a 486-2/66



----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Wilkinson" <Chains@Ultranet.ca>
To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 2:13 AM
Subject: Installation on a 486-2/66


> I have a problem installing FreeBSD release 4.0 on my system.
>
> My System:
> ^^^^^^^^^
> 486 DX2/66
> 8MB of RAM
> ISA Western Digital 340MB hardrive
> Motherboard: 452S (with VL-BUS)
>
> Disk Configuration:
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 40MB DOS partition including the minimal install files
> in directory C:\FreeBSD\BIN
>
> The other partition is allocated to FreeBSD
>
> The Problem:
> ^^^^^^^^^^
> After first going through the "OPTIONS" feature in the install,
> I selected install from MS-DOS partition 1.  This works OK!
>
> Next when the installation setup program asked me to FDISK,
> I selected the unused partition for FreeBSD, created and set the
> slice as bootable.  This works OK!
>
> For setup, i selected "A" for automatically configure the directories.
> This worked ok!
>
> **FINALLY, when it began installing from MS-DOS, it gets to about
> 9% (chunk 12 of 130) and it just sits there!    My original install from
> the
> floppies (27 diskettes), would have the same problems (which is why
> I decided to install from MS-DOS on the same hardrive). I noticed that
> once i was able to install all the way up to 35% from diskette before
> the
> setup program decided to freeze.   By hitting CTRL-ALT-DELETE after
> freezing, sometimes it would continue installing.  But recently it just
> starts
> re-installing the entire bin distribution after it gives me a read
> failure message.
>
> I have attempted to install FreeBSD many times but have been stopped at
> the same problem.  Could you give me any insight as to why I would
> have this problem?  Should i purchase the FreeBSD distribution CD
> and install from there?
>

Where is the copy of FreeBSD that you have from?  It sounds to me like the
copy you have may be corrupted.  I would give up on the floppy install, as
it is pretty hard to make that many floppies without there being some kind
of error on one of them.

Josh

> Thanks,
>     Rob
>
>
>
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