On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:15:19PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
There *are* other ways to install than booting a CDROM; they are
just more labor intensive, and require FreeBSD running on a more
poswerful machine to set up the install for the other machine.
True. Anyone who wants to install on a
John Birrell wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:15:19PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
There *are* other ways to install than booting a CDROM; they are
just more labor intensive, and require FreeBSD running on a more
poswerful machine to set up the install for the other machine.
True. Anyone
On 2003.06.25 21:30:28 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
On 2003.06.25 12:10:42 +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
FWIW, the last FreeBSD release I managed to install on an 8mb machine from
CD-ROM+bootfloppies was 4.1.1.
Can anybody else confirm this ? It seems like
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, M-Trade wrote:
Has anyone had any success installing 5.1 release on a 486
w/ 8MB RAM? I can't install.
avail memory = (245760) 0 MB
Is this expected behavior?
Yes. I got pre 5.1 running on a 386dx33 with 16mb; it wouldn't work with
8.
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M-Trade wrote:
Has anyone had any success installing 5.1 release on a 486
w/ 8MB RAM? I can't install.
avail memory = (245760) 0 MB
Is this expected behavior?
Until you build a skinnier kernel, you only have 240K of memory
in which to run processes.
Normally, the install process uses a
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 11:44, Terry Lambert wrote:
Alternately, you could find a FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 distribution on the
net somewhere, and install that, instead; I have personally run
that version of FreeBSD on a 4M 386SX, to use it as an X Terminal.
8-).
FWIW, the last FreeBSD release I
On 2003.06.25 12:10:42 +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 11:44, Terry Lambert wrote:
Alternately, you could find a FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 distribution on the
net somewhere, and install that, instead; I have personally run
that version of FreeBSD on a 4M 386SX, to use it
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:45:19PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
On 2003.06.25 12:10:42 +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 11:44, Terry Lambert wrote:
Alternately, you could find a FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 distribution on the
net somewhere, and install that, instead; I
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:44:24AM -0700 I heard the voice of
Terry Lambert, and lo! it spake thus:
Alternately, you could find a FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 distribution on the
net somewhere, and install that, instead; I have personally run
that version of FreeBSD on a 4M 386SX, to use it as an X
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M-Trade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: Hello,
:
: Has anyone had any success installing 5.1 release on a 486
: w/ 8MB RAM? I can't install.
:
: avail memory = (245760) 0 MB
:
: Is this expected behavior?
Yes. The generic kernel is a big fat pigdog.
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:
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M-Trade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: Hello,
:
: Has anyone had any success installing 5.1 release on a 486
: w/ 8MB RAM? I can't install.
:
: avail memory = (245760) 0 MB
:
: Is this expected behavior?
Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
On 2003.06.25 12:10:42 +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
FWIW, the last FreeBSD release I managed to install on an 8mb machine from
CD-ROM+bootfloppies was 4.1.1.
Can anybody else confirm this ? It seems like the documetation need to
be updated to state this.
M. Warner Losh wrote:
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M-Trade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: Has anyone had any success installing 5.1 release on a 486
: w/ 8MB RAM? I can't install.
:
: avail memory = (245760) 0 MB
:
: Is this expected behavior?
Yes. The generic kernel is a
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