Hi all, thanks for your input. For now, I have upgraded the machine to 4.7, but I am still interested in getting 5.0 installed...
> > Machine: 150MHz Pentium, 16MB ram, 1.5Gig HD > > Well that's not much memory. 5.0 needs much more minimum memory than 4.x (oops... the machine is only a P133... :) Where are the system requirements for 5.0 listed? (I didn't find memory/HD/processor specs in the early-adopter's guide or other places...) Since PC133 is so cheap, I'm loathe to scrap around for/buy old SIMM's... > what does a dmesg from 4.3 look like? (already upgraded to 4.7) ***** dmesg start ***** Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #1: Mon Feb 24 17:44:20 CST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/CUSTOM Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium/P54C (132.96-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x52c Stepping = 12 Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8> real memory = 16777216 (16384K bytes) config> di pcic0 No such device: pcic0 Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. config> di sn0 config> di lnc0 config> di ie0 config> di fe0 No such device: fe0 Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. config> di ed0 No such device: ed0 Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. config> di cs0 config> di bt0 No such device: bt0 Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. config> di aic0 No such device: aic0 Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. config> di aha0 No such device: aha0 Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. config> di adv0 No such device: adv0 Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. config> q avail memory = 13819904 (13496K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc02b3000. Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc02b309c. Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug md0: Malloc disk npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 isab0: <Intel 82371FB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 pci0: <S3 Trio graphics accelerator> at 8.0 irq 11 wb0: <Winbond W89C840F 10/100BaseTX> port 0xf880-0xf8ff mem 0xfffbf800-0xfffbf87f irq 10 at device 17.0 on pci0 wb0: Ethernet address: 00:10:61:b0:58:ae miibus0: <MII bus> on wb0 amphy0: <Am79C873 10/100 media interface> on miibus0 amphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto dc0: <ADMtek AN985 10/100BaseTX> port 0xfc00-0xfcff mem 0xfffbfc00-0xfffbffff irq 10 at device 19.0 on pci0 dc0: Ethernet address: 00:04:5a:43:1e:5b miibus1: <MII bus> on dc0 ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus1 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xed000-0xedfff on isa0 fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 ata0 at port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 irq 14 on isa0 ata1 at port 0x170-0x177,0x376 irq 15 on isa0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio4: <RC144AxF> at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio4: type 16550A IP packet filtering initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to deny, unlimited logging ata1-slave: ATAPI identify retries exceeded ad0: 1549MB <WDC AC21600H> [3148/16/63] at ata0-master BIOSPIO acd0: CDROM <FX600S> at ata1-master BIOSPIO Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a ***** dmesg end ***** As I mentioned before, the boot floppies start to launch sysinstall, and then everything locks up. Is there anything I could to to work around this (short of upgrading the system)? Thanks, Daniel Herring [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message