Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 18:54:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Sevag Krikorian <kahlinor@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-small <freebsd-small@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: where can I get the latest version of picoBSD Message-ID: <20040527015403.624.qmail@web14708.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040526184845.9195.qmail@web12309.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hello, Recently I have an interest in playing around with a new OS after 10 years of Windows. Here is what I have and what I'm trying to do, please let me know if I'm in the wrong place or if this is not possible. I have: 233MHZ AMDk-6 processor with 3GB HD and pretty much dead in the water when it comes to networking or anything else for that matter, other than a floppy. Currently, this box runs on the floppy-version of FreeDOS installed on the HD. What I want to do: Install a FreeBSD hobby development environment, one floppy at a time. I thought I would start with PicoBSD to get the ball rolling. My problem: The PicoBSD floppy boots no problem on my fully loaded 600MHZ Celeron WinME. However, when I try to load it on my dinosaur, the bootup hangs after the kernel configuration... even after I diable just about everything non-essential. I get the following errors: always: pid8 (shl), uid 0: exited on signal 11 sometimes: pid4 (sh) sometimes it says "error on process 8" which I assume is the same thing as the pid8 error. Question: I'm assuming the current PicoBSD doesn't run on older hardware? So is there a more primitive version of PicoBSD that I can get so that I can at least load up a shell envrionment, with some basic tools for formatting and partitioning the HD, setting up a boot sector and an HD startup sequence? Eventually, I would like to install assembly language development tools and go wild learning BSD as a break from Windows. I'm not interested (yet) of accessing networks from this machine, though I may eventually install a modem on it. This is not important now. Thanks. ===== Sevag Krikorian -=[Kain]=- http://www.geocities.com/kahlinor/index.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/
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