Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 03:46:52 +0200 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: 16M RAM enough for FreeBSD 6.1? Message-ID: <20060827034652.ad43299b.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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Hello, I have an old laptop, a Compaq Armada 1580DMT, with 16M RAM, 2GB hd, floppy and CD-rom. It doesn't have built in networking, neither wired nor wireless. It does have PC card slots. It has had FreeBSD 4.9-release installed a long time, and was recently upgraded to 4.11-release from CD, sucessfully. However, I would like better pccard support, ie. 32 bit cardbus and wireless network cards, so I would like to install 6.1-release (or -stable) on it. However, when I try the 6.1-release CD (CD1), it boots as far as loading the kernel, botting the kernel, and then reboots again?? I have also tried 6.0-release, and 7.0-current (both July 06 and Aug 06 snapshots) with the same results. Are 16 Megs of RAM to little to install FreeBSD 6.0 or newer? -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway
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