From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 24 21:25:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA14168 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 21:25:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts11-line1.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.116]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA14159 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 21:25:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00269; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 21:25:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 21:25:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Ginger Warbis cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help! cant install In-Reply-To: <199607242311.TAA21652@wahoo.netrunner.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Try to wrap your lines at about column 75. Thanks. On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, Ginger Warbis wrote: > I am setting up freeBSD for the first time but am having some > difficulty. My machine meets the bare minium requirments as it is a > 386sx w/ 4m ram 80m IDE drive. After booting from the boot flopy and > going through the inital disk partition setup fine I get to the > extraction of the root flopy and crash. If this is 2.1.0-RELEASE you need 5MB of RAM. If you use the 2.1.5-RELEASE boot4.flp floppy it should work OK. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major