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Date:      Mon, 7 Apr 1997 20:51:33 +0200
From:      Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        dennis <dennis@etinc.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.2.1R NFS and FTP load problem FOUND
Message-ID:  <19970407205133.25289@klemm.gtn.com>
In-Reply-To: <199704052032.NAA23589@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sat, Apr 05, 1997 at 01:32:09PM -0700
References:  <3.0.32.19970405105105.00a53e70@etinc.com> <199704052032.NAA23589@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Sat, Apr 05, 1997 at 01:32:09PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > >That's odd.. I had no problems installing 2.2R or 2.2.1R over NFS with an
> > >old ISA-only 486 with 8MB of RAM. 
> > 
> > Since there seems to be widespread doubt about this conclusion,
> > if someone can get me a boot disk with some diagnostics for
> > memory usage I'd be more than happy to try to track this down (as
> > its no doubt going to bite me in the future)....theres a limited amount
> > of info that I can gather with the install disk unfortunatly.....
> 
> A good memory diagnostic is to boot the FreeBSD install; if it fails
> in 8M or more, you probably have flakey RAM.  8-).

BSDI comes with a RAM tester as add on utiliy on the BSDI CD.
YOu can dd floppy image to floppy, boot from that floppy ...

Here it didn't work ...

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