On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, daniel wrote:
i've been trying to install freebsd-5.3RELEASE on this old computer on and off for days now. i downloaded the floppies, watched the thing boot and each and every time, it'll get to the little beastie prompt where it counts down and is *supposed* to run sysinst but instead, it just reboots!
That's just peculiar. Maybe you need more RAM? Couldn't hurt, anyway. The 16M you cite below seems a bit meager.
i even went out and bought a new set of floppies
I've found that *many* - maybe even most - floppies are bad out of the box. I buy the 25- or 50-pack, and churn through until I find two good ones. Sometimes it takes a while.
and it still doesn't work, so i'm posting here. suggestions? comments? here's my specs:
amd-k6 133mhz 16mb ram 4gb hd
Other than the RAM, this should be fine as long as you don't plan on storing much data. I'd use this machine as a home gateway/firewall/NAT box.
I haven't installed a recent FreeBSD on any hardware quite so - um, experienced, but I *have* installed 5.3R successfully on a K6-2/400 with 196M of RAM. That was booting from floppies and installing via FTP from the 'net. Once installed, the thing is even surprisingly fast.
HTH.
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