Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 20:21:13 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Andrew Johns <ajohns@TurnAround.com.au> Cc: gjukema@silk.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.1 CD installation hangs Message-ID: <3769BB29.16080D2F@3-cities.com> References: <000901beb91f$6967d610$4001a8c0@tasajohns.turnaround.com.au>
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Andrew Johns wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of > > gjukema@silk.net > > Sent: Friday, 18 June 1999 10:03 > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: 3.1 CD installation hangs > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I've been attempting an installation from the 3.1 CD (which I have > > successfully accomplished a number of times), but am failing > > on this one > > box. Its a DataTrain P120 with the Award Modular BIOS > > v4.51PG, also, Plug > > and Play BIOS extension v1.0A. The machine has 8MB Ram. > > > Here's your problem ------------------------------^ > > The documentation specifically staes that 12 MB RAM is required to > install. Where does it state that. I know that is what we are telling people but when you look at x.x-RELEASE/INSTALL.TXT for the last 4 or 5 releases you read the following FreeBSD requires a 386 or better processor to run (sorry, there is no support for '286 processors) and at least 5 megs of RAM to install and 4 megs of RAM to run. You will need at least 100MB of free hard drive space for the most minimal installation. See below for ways of shrinking existing DOS partitions in order to install FreeBSD. This was copied from the INSTALL.TXT that comes with 3.2R on ftp3.FreeBSD.ORG. It has the same specification in releases/i386/3.2-STABLE. Kent > > [snip] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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