On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:40:06 +0200
igor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
System hangs when starting sysinstall :(
On system with 8Mb of memory, when starting /stand/sysinstall happens
restart.
There is piece of install.txt:
1.2 Hardware Requirements
FreeBSD for the i386 requires a 386 or better processor to run (sorry,
there is no support for 286 processors) and at least 5 megs of RAM to
install and 4 megs of RAM to run.
So, it must work on system with 16Mb of memory!
I don't remember where I read this (I checked the handbook but I
couldn't find it):
FreeBSD will run with 4M of memory, but sysinstall requires more - I
thought it was more than 5M, but still less than 16M... maybe
install.txt is out of date?
Anyway, you could try this:
- take the HDD out of the 16M machine
- put it in a machine with more memory
- install FreeBSD on it with that machine
- put it back in the 16M machine
When doing this, be careful about which device the HDD it thinks it is -
e.g, if it's the primary master in the machine with 16M of memory, make
it the primary master in the other machine too.
-Chris
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