Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 19:41:19 +0100 From: John Murphy <jfm@blueyonder.co.uk> To: pierangelo <iyn74@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I can't install freebsd5.0 on an old 486 Message-ID: <clsqav487ehphmijni82kagl8rbijkghk7@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <20030428163206.49430.qmail@web11101.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030428163206.49430.qmail@web11101.mail.yahoo.com>
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pierangelo <iyn74@yahoo.com> wrote: > I'm tring to install on an old 486, with 16mb(!) >ram, 33Mhz, 800Mb disk >and a VGA video.. > > /stand/sysinstall seems to hang.. >I didn't find any kernel configuration men=F9, as I read >on freebsd handbook. <snipped lot's of good details> > Better give up and say goodbye to that old,old pc? Not necessarily. FreeBSD-5.0 is very new and the kernel has debugging features built in which may cause difficulty with just 16M memory. You could try putting more memory in, or try FreeBSD-4.8. If that doesn't work, perhaps due to an unusual 486cpu (Free wouldn't install on a TI486 I recently tried), you could try NetBSD. Good luck John.
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