Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 15:23:35 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Potchanat Samermit" <psamermit2@home.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation and Bootdisks Message-ID: <14860.26456.683.867717@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <37107678@toto.iv>
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Potchanat Samermit <psamermit2@home.com> types: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please don't send HTML to the list, even (or especially) if you send plain text along as well - it's considered rude. Some people are using mail readers that don't handle HTML, others are reading the digest, whichi loses the information needed to decode the thing. > 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 The most common reason for this is that you FTP'ed the floppies in text mode instead of binary mode on a DOS box. That turns all the newlines into carriage return newlines, making them to big. > 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. I've seen the claim that you need more than 4MB of ram to install, but not run, FreeBSD. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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