On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 05:55:31PM +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 10:52:53PM -0500, daniel wrote: > > > >>On February 7, 2005 10:40 pm, Chris Hill wrote: > >> > >>>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. > >> > >>well the handbook says freebsd5 has a minimum requirement of 8mb, so 16 > >>should be fine. but even if it weren't, you'd think there'd be some form > >>of useful error message instead of just rebooting. it just makes no > >>sense. > > > > > >In practise no-one tests running on minuscule-memory configurations, > >so it's possible that 8mb or even 16mb is not in fact enough thesedays. > > > >Anyway, it's possible something else is wrong. Did you try the other > >boot modes, e.g. disabling acpi, running in 'safe mode', etc? In > >particular, many older systems have buggy BIOS implementations that do > >not allow them to run with acpi, even though the BIOS thinks they can. > > > >Kris > > In my experience, I was not able to install FreeBSD 5.3 in an old > pentium 16 MB RAM. I experienced the same reboot problem. 32 MB fixed > the issue and it installed fine. I could not test with 24 MB, but > perhaps it will work.
Sounds like memory is indeed the issue then - is the original poster able to confirm this? If so, one of you should submit a PR requesting that the docs be updated. Kris
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