From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 21 14:32:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA12944 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 14:32:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.com [209.25.4.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA12933 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 14:32:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id VAA09141; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 21:32:26 GMT Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 14:32:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Brian Bennett cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad install In-Reply-To: <060dd1500201577UPIMSSMTPUSR01@email.msn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Brian Bennett wrote: > I downloaded the floppy image so I could install bsd on a 486sx25 with 4MB > RAM. After booting with the disk, the install came to the hardware The newer releases won't install with 4MB. I think 2.1.0 was the last that would. > also. Should I try a different computer? I would love any help you can > give me. If you can't add the RAM, yes. Try another computer with more RAM in it. 5M minimum I believe though you really won't want to use less than 8. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82