From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 5 13: 7:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from privatecube.privatelabs.com (privatecube.privatelabs.com [198.143.31.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A1FC37BC40 for ; Fri, 5 May 2000 13:07:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mi@privatelabs.com) Received: from misha.privatelabs.com (root@misha.privatelabs.com [198.143.31.6]) by privatecube.privatelabs.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA20115; Fri, 5 May 2000 15:06:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from privatelabs.com (mi@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by misha.privatelabs.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA52363; Fri, 5 May 2000 16:07:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi@privatelabs.com) From: mi@privatelabs.com Message-Id: <200005052007.QAA52363@misha.privatelabs.com> Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 16:07:16 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: problem bootimg [free|pico]bsd at 386sx To: "Chris D. Faulhaber" Cc: Aleksey , stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=koi8-u Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 5 May, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: = On Fri, 5 May 2000, Aleksey wrote: = = > Greetings! = > = > I have a 386sx with 4mb of mem, floppy. = > trying to boot from freebsd 3.È install floppies and/or picobsd. = > = = See INSTALL.TXT: = = FreeBSD requires a 386 or better processor to run (sorry, there is no = support for '286 processors) and at least 5 megs of RAM to install = and 4 megs of RAM to run..... = = Sounds like you are 1 meg short. Should not PicoBSD still work? In any case, I think, it is possible to build a customized version of kernel (less drivers, no PCI/EISA) and it may fit... But you'll have to build on some other machine. -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message