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.
Interestingly, the Installation Notes for 4.11-R, http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/installation-i386.html state, in section 1.2 Hardware Requirements, "The sysinstall(8) installation program requires 16MB of RAM"
Does sysinstall in 5.3 _really_ need half the RAM that 4.11 requires? I find that hard to believe.
Mark
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