From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 14 0:27: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from adsl-63-194-112-53.dsl.snlo01.pacbell.net (adsl-63-194-112-53.dsl.snlo01.pacbell.net [63.194.112.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DAD8E37BFD8 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 00:26:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@info-logix.com) Received: (qmail 41454 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2000 07:31:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ibix) (192.168.1.3) by adsl-63-194-112-53.dsl.snlo01.pacbell.net with SMTP; 14 Jul 2000 07:31:26 -0000 From: "Hank Wethington" To: "freebsd" , "Josh Paetzel" , "Rob Wilkinson" , Subject: RE: Installation on a 486-2/66 Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 00:25:39 -0700 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 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry to disagree... I have a 486/66 with 8 mb ram and 800 mb drive running 3.4 just fine. It is actually running NAT for my DSL and 4 other computers, ncFTPd for ftp, Qmail for SMTP and POP, SSH for remote logins, xntpd for keeping time correct. The machine has now been up over 30 days. I rebooted to clear apache, it wasn't running well with all the others with such limited resources. :) Hank -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of freebsd Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 2:57 PM To: Josh Paetzel; Rob Wilkinson; questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Installation on a 486-2/66 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" To: 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message