Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 09:17:21 -0600 From: "Potchanat Samermit" <psamermit2@home.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: FreeBSD Installation and Bootdisks Message-ID: <000801c04b29$532a3030$6907b318@c454454a>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C04AF7.080C5F60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable FreeBSD forerunners: I am new to Unix/BSD. I have an old 486 without a CD. I am trying to = find my way to install a FreeBSD version into this machine. However, = (unclearly) following the instructions on your site, the images for the = floppies are too big for the diskettes.=20 My machine has only 160 MB harddrive and 4MB Ram. Don't know if I can = upgrade the RAM on this. Too old. I want to start with something minimal = first until I have more money to buy a good machine for it.=20 I have another machine with more RAM (20M) may be that is a better = choice but will be the same HD. Can someone help guide me through? I have been at this for quite some = times and think I have run to an end. Need help. One day I will be able = to help others too. Thank you very much. Potchanat Samermit ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C04AF7.080C5F60 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2920.0" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>FreeBSD forerunners:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I am new to Unix/BSD. I have an old 486 = without a=20 CD. I am trying to find my way to install a FreeBSD version into this = machine.=20 However, (unclearly) following the instructions on your site, the images = for the=20 floppies are too big for the diskettes. </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>My machine has only 160 MB harddrive = and 4MB Ram.=20 Don't know if I can upgrade the RAM on this. Too old. I want to start = with=20 something minimal first until I have more money to buy a good machine = for it.=20 </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I have another machine with more RAM = (20M) may be=20 that is a better choice but will be the same HD.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Can someone help guide me through? I = have been at=20 this for quite some times and think I have run to an end. Need help. One = day I=20 will be able to help others too.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thank you very much.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Potchanat = Samermit</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C04AF7.080C5F60-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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