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Date:      Sat, 13 Jan 1996 12:41:55 +0100 (MET)
From:      Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de>
To:        sreid@edmbbs.iceonline.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.1 install on 4 meg machine?
Message-ID:  <199601131141.MAA00423@mordillo>
In-Reply-To: <9601120502.D6203mi@edmbbs.iceonline.com> from "sreid@edmbbs.iceonline.com" at Jan 12, 96 05:02:41 am

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hasn't sreid@edmbbs.iceonline.com said ? ...
> 
> I tried installing FreeBSD 2.1 from CD, but when the install program
> boots into FreeBSD, it panics:
> 
> rootfs is 1000 Kbyte compiled in MFS
> /stand/sysinstall running as init
> panic: page fault
> 
> I have 2.0.5 running fine on my 4 meg 486SX-25... I want to do an
> install rather than an upgrade, so that I can repartition my HD to
> allocate more space for FreeBSD and less for Dos.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't have enough Unix experience to decode the error
> message.
> 
the memory baseline for installing 2.1.0 is 5 mbyte - but you may
_run_ it with 4 - maybe you can borrow 4 for the installation ?

t
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