Re: Install on 486 with floppy reboots after mfsroot

2004-02-14 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
matthew wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Brent Bowman wrote: Oh boy, I guess that I've either got to find more RAM, find an older/stripped down version of FreeBSD, or give up. Well, if i was you i would get on the phone and call every household that you think has a basement full of junk. They

Re: Install on 486 with floppy reboots after mfsroot

2004-02-12 Thread Bob Johnson
Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Brent Bowman wrote: I get to the end of step 2.3.1.1 Booting for the i386 where it tells to boot the kernel and no matter what I do, it just reboots the computer! Therefore it looses whatever it tried to put in memory and starts over again.How can I

RE: Re: Install on 486 with floppy reboots after mfsroot

2004-02-12 Thread Brent Bowman
Oh boy, I guess that I've either got to find more RAM, find an older/stripped down version of FreeBSD, or give up. I looked around a little, how would I find a skinnier version of FreeBSD for this old box. Also, does anybody have any ideas (besides ebay) on how I would find some really old

RE: Re: Install on 486 with floppy reboots after mfsroot

2004-02-12 Thread matthew
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Brent Bowman wrote: Oh boy, I guess that I've either got to find more RAM, find an older/stripped down version of FreeBSD, or give up. Well, if i was you i would get on the phone and call every household that you think has a basement full of junk. They will more than

Install on 486 with floppy reboots after mfsroot

2004-02-11 Thread Brent Bowman
Hello all, I've got a question about the install of the current FreeBSD. I am using the floppy install, and I dd (I'm a linux user) both the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp onto floppies, then I follow the instructions on this site:

Re: Install on 486 with floppy reboots after mfsroot

2004-02-11 Thread matthew
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Brent Bowman wrote: Hello all, I've got a question about the install of the current FreeBSD. I am using the floppy install, and I dd (I'm a linux user) both the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp onto floppies, then I follow the instructions on this site:

Re: Install on 486 with floppy reboots after mfsroot

2004-02-11 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Brent Bowman wrote: I get to the end of step 2.3.1.1 Booting for the i386 where it tells to boot the kernel and no matter what I do, it just reboots the computer! Therefore it looses whatever it tried to put in memory and starts over again.How can I get it to go to