Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:13:34 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: deeptech71@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what can i do with a 486? Message-ID: <45BA44CE.90501@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <45BA3868.2020200@gmail.com> References: <45B3A409.40005@gmail.com> <45BA30CF.9070906@gmail.com> <45BA3868.2020200@gmail.com>
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deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: > What is LBA? Is it related to partitioning? (btw the HDD is 200MB) LBA is "Logical Block Addressing", a replacement for the older "Cylinder Head Sector" (CHS) scheme of addressing data block locations on hard disks (and some other storage media, in the case of LBA). It was first used in SCSI devices and later became a part of the ATA-2 standard; an old 486 such as the one you describe is probably ATA-1. I believe the point a few fellows are trying to make is that during installation on a "new system", the BIOS uses LBA; then, when you put that disk on the 486, the BIOS gets confused because it doesn't understand LBA, and reports "missing operating system" or the like. IANAE, but I'm pretty sure that's what is being discussed. > Still, wether it's HDD errors or not, why won't the FreeBSD floppies > work? (I have even tried them when the HDD wasn't connexted.) On 01/18/07 17:47, you wrote: > 8MB RAM That's likely the issue, although I don't remember if you've mentioned exactly when it fails. The installer attempts to create a memory disk that's a good bit larger than 8MB; IIRC, with current FreeBSD versions you can't even install on a machine with 16MB RAM - you need 20+MB or so (which usually means 32MB must be installed). It wouldn't get very far at all with 8 meg of RAM. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Majorities, of course, start with minorities. -- Robert Moses
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