Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 14:04:40 -0500 (EST) From: Jaime Kikpole <jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com> To: edk@null.net Cc: Chris England <cengland@obscurity.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912121400500.54188-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com> In-Reply-To: <9912121350387X.04775@weba7.iname.net>
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On Sun, 12 Dec 1999 edk@null.net wrote: > The first thing about this that seems odd to me is that both DOS and > the power on self test report that this system has 4M of memory, not > the 640K reported here. > > Anyone have any more ideas for me? Take a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/install.html#AEN450 It looks like your system can't really handle FreeBSD. In a nutshell, you need 5MB of RAM to run the installer. If you only have 4MB, FreeBSD 3.0 might run, but I suspect it wouldn't really be worth the effort. I run FreeBSD 3.2 ona 486sx with 20MB of RAM. I had to upgrade it from its original 8MB of RAM when I realized that using apache on it made it resort to swapping into and out of virtual memory for just about any possible activity. Sorry for the bad news. Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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