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Date:      Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:22:29 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Blair Schmittel <blair@strech.cyber-naut.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, c@strech.cyber-naut.com
Subject:   Re: installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960328202052.1542G-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199603280511.WAA14056@strech.cyber-naut.com>

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On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Blair Schmittel wrote:

> > I have a Pentium 120 Triton Chipset and 16 megs of ram.  The boot floppy
> loads fine, and I am able to do the configuration on the pre-install.  I
> start transfering FreeBSD via FTP, and the image floppy loads fine.  About
> 5% into the binary's I get a panic. > > I loaded FreeBSD successfully onto
> a friends machine which is the exact same system, down to the video card. 
> I've tried multiple boot floppies also. 
> 
> The system:
> P5120 Triton 256K Cache
> 16 megs EDO Ram
> Diamon Stealth 64 Video card
> 3Com Etherlink III card w/plug 'n play disabled
> 
> The Problem;
> This is the error I get during the installation:
> 
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

Hm.  We see this when memory runs out, when you try to install into a 4mb 
system.  Have you tried turning on debug and hopping over to the debug 
console on ALT-F2?  I wonder if something else is failing, and the panic 
is the end of the chain reaction.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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