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 likely have an old computer down
there you can take the ram from.
I looked around a little, how would I find a skinnier version
of FreeBSD for this old box.
Did you try 3.5-RELEASE and cvsup to stable? I still run 3.4 and 3.5.
Also, does anybody have any ideas (besides ebay) on how I would
find some really old 60ns SIMMS for that box for cheap?
If you were standing right next to me I would throw some at you :P
Are you in some strange region where it is difficult to find old ram?
I am sure a second hand pc shop will gladly give you 32mb ram (come
in pairs) for 5 bucks. 10 at most.
m
Thanks so far, you've been quite responsive.
Brent
--- Original Message ---
From: Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2/12/04 11:43:38 AM
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 get it to go to the kernel
setup?
My Hardware:
IBM PS/Valuepoint 486 33MHz
8 MB RAM
^^
This is likely the problem. The install needs more than 8M,
somewhere
between 12 and 16M last I heard.
If it helps, I have a Valuepoint 486 DX2/66 with 32M of RAM
that runs
4.8 flawlessly.
I've got 4.9 running on a 486/33 with 20 MB of RAM, so if you
can scrape
up that much it should be sufficient. It works fine as a personal
mail
server with Courier, except that the IMAP folders containing
over 10,000
messages cause huge amounts of thrashing when I open them.
Takes
several minutes.
It also takes nearly three days to build 4.9 from source on
a 486/33...
- Bob
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