Re: Xorg failed to run on old PC.

2007-06-28 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:21:20 +0200 David Marec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi Hi David, [ originally sent to ports@ - this should really go in questions@, not really to do with the ports systems. therefore,i've moved it.] > > > I am trying to configure an old "cirix166-48Mo RAM" workstation

Re: New IDE drive in old PC

2005-12-30 Thread dgmm
On Thursday 29 December 2005 17:57, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > I presume you mean GB for size. I just plugged a 250GB drive into a PIII > 500 Supermicro board. The bios thinks it is 8GB. I get No Rom Basic if I > try to boot. I also tried it as an external USB drive and fdisk'd and > bsdlabelled it

RE: New IDE drive in old PC

2005-12-29 Thread Gayn Winters
> On Behalf Of Gayn Winters > Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 10:04 AM > > On Behalf Of RW > > Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:18 AM > > On Wednesday 28 December 2005 07:14, Robert Slade wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote: > > > > I have an old (very old) ASUS P5 moth

RE: New IDE drive in old PC

2005-12-29 Thread Gayn Winters
> On Behalf Of RW > Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:18 AM > On Wednesday 28 December 2005 07:14, Robert Slade wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote: > > > I have an old (very old) ASUS P5 motherboard running FreeBSD 5.4. > > > The boot disk is a 40MB Western Digital WD400 ID

Re: New IDE drive in old PC

2005-12-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Chris Whitehouse wrote: On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote: [ ... ] The new disk will be just for data. If this will "just work" how do I configure the BIOS so the PC will boot with the large drive installed? I presume you mean GB for size. I just plugged a 250GB drive into a PII

Re: New IDE drive in old PC

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote: I have an old (very old) ASUS P5 motherboard running FreeBSD 5.4. The boot disk is a 40MB Western Digital WD400 IDE drive jumpered to only use 32MB so it can be booted from since the BIOS in this PC (the latest and greatest) can't deal with anythin

Re: New IDE drive in old PC

2005-12-29 Thread RW
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 07:14, Robert Slade wrote: > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote: > > I have an old (very old) ASUS P5 motherboard running FreeBSD 5.4. > > The boot disk is a 40MB Western Digital WD400 IDE drive jumpered to > > only use 32MB so it can be booted from since t

Re: New IDE drive in old PC

2005-12-27 Thread Robert Slade
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote: > I have an old (very old) ASUS P5 motherboard running FreeBSD 5.4. > The boot disk is a 40MB Western Digital WD400 IDE drive jumpered to > only use 32MB so it can be booted from since the BIOS in this PC > (the latest and greatest) can't deal with an

New IDE drive in old PC

2005-12-27 Thread Robert Ames
I have an old (very old) ASUS P5 motherboard running FreeBSD 5.4. The boot disk is a 40MB Western Digital WD400 IDE drive jumpered to only use 32MB so it can be booted from since the BIOS in this PC (the latest and greatest) can't deal with anything larger than 32MB. This PC is working well for me

Re: FBSD 5.4 and old PC

2005-10-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 08:58:23AM +0200, Sasa Stupar wrote: > Hi! > > I have an old Compaq Deskpro 2000 (P166) with 64M RAM and HDD 1.5G. I was > thinking to make it as router with FBSD 5.4. > Did anyone had any kind of problems with setup on that kind of machine? Try it and see! Kris pgpuQ

FBSD 5.4 and old PC

2005-10-28 Thread Sasa Stupar
Hi! I have an old Compaq Deskpro 2000 (P166) with 64M RAM and HDD 1.5G. I was thinking to make it as router with FBSD 5.4. Did anyone had any kind of problems with setup on that kind of machine? Regards, Sasa pgpyxZSX8QkjH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: old pc

2005-07-22 Thread Andy W Clements
You need to increase the memory, otherwise you are fine. I have three 133-166 pentiums w/ 64 MB each, running 5.4 doing various jobs (i.e. DNS, DHCP server, etc.) and they have just been tooting along. Mind you, I have not installed X windows on any of these machines --Andy On Fri, 2005-07-

Re: old pc

2005-07-22 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 7/22/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a Pentium-S with 133Mhz , 8MB RAM and 1,7 GB Hard Disk > Can i install freebsd 5.4 on such a machine or i need an older freebsd According to FreeBSD/i386 5.4-RELEASE Installation Instructions, http://www.freebsd.org/releases/

Re: old pc

2005-07-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:19:50PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a Pentium-S with 133Mhz , 8MB RAM and 1,7 GB Hard Disk > Can i install freebsd 5.4 on such a machine or i need an older freebsd You need more memory to install FreeBSD 5.4. I think 32MB RAM is the minimum needed to

old pc

2005-07-22 Thread thanps
I have a Pentium-S with 133Mhz , 8MB RAM and 1,7 GB Hard Disk Can i install freebsd 5.4 on such a machine or i need an older freebsd ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Re: dpt on old PC

2004-06-21 Thread Steve Bertrand
> I have compiled a kernel (based on 4.10) on a newer PC with several > options to get my dpt scsi controller for my older PC to work. > > The size of the kernel is bigger than an 1.44MB floppy disk. How can I > make a kern.flp ready floppy with my new kernel ? How much bigger is it? Can you eli

Re: kernel support for old PC

2004-06-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
> Is there a site where one can download pre-configured kernels on > standard 1.44Mb floppy disk ? Sure. You can start the install from floppy, then do the actual installation of the system over FTP. You can find the info you need to do this here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books

kernel support for old PC

2004-06-18 Thread Pascal Thibaudeau
Dear FreeBSD users I would like to boot and use the latest freebsd distribution available on an old i386 Pentium PC with no ATAPI nor IDE disk controller. My configuration is DPT smartcache III SCSI controller on ISA bus SCSI CD-ROM and disks Ethernet 3com 3C509 on ISA bus The 5.2.1 distribution