Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 10:41:51 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Geoff Jukema <gjukema@silk.net> Cc: Andrew Johns <ajohns@TurnAround.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.1 CD installation hangs Message-ID: <376BD65F.84817C21@3-cities.com> References: <000901beb91f$6967d610$4001a8c0@tasajohns.turnaround.com.au> <3769BB29.16080D2F@3-cities.com> <376BC888.37352DF@silk.net>
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Geoff Jukema wrote: > > [snip] > > > > and Play BIOS extension v1.0A. The machine has 8MB Ram. > > > > > > > Here's your problem ------------------------------^ > > > > > > The documentation specifically staes that 12 MB RAM is required to > > > install. > > > > Where does it state that. I know that is what we are telling people > > but when you look at x.x-RELEASE/INSTALL.TXT for the last 4 or 5 > > releases you read the following > > Well, I popped in 2-8MB simms and its working fine. I redug into the > installation guides on the CD, and on the website, and all I've ever > found was 5 to install, and 4 to run minimum. Perhaps during hardware > probe a check could be implemented, and if there isn't enough to > install, an error message should display. Just a thought. That has been everyone else's experience. Give the installer 12MB of memory or more and it installs fine. My problem is with the documentation, which I think is out of date. If the documentation has 5MB to install and you need 12MB, then the ERRATA.TXT should have that in it and the documentation upgraded in the future. I could not find anything including the jewel box inserts that have the memory requirement of 12MB or more specified. You might consider doing a send-pr on the issue. I have asked how to get the requirement upgraded and do a send-pr was the response. I have thought about doing that but my smallest simm is 8MB and that makes my minimum memory installation 16MB. I can't personally do a send-pr because I can't make it fail in my environment. A send-pr would get the documentation upgraded. It wouldn't be so bad if the installer had produced an insufficient memory message as you suggested. It simply hangs or produces some other non-descript failure. You have to find out about the real memory requirements from a current user. Have a good day, Kent > > Anyway, I appreciate the help, its working fine now. > > Geoff > > --- > Geoff Jukema aka Spammer > gjukema@silk.net > http://www.silk.net/personal/gjukema/ -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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